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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.






2. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.






3. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.






4. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






5. A lack of the desired response.






6. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.






7. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.






8. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






9. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.






10. The point at which appetite is lost.






11. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)






12. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.






13. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.






14. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)






15. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.






16. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.






17. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.






18. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.






19. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.






20. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






21. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






22. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.






23. A signal which will trigger a specific behavior or reflex as a result of a learned association.






24. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.






25. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.






26. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.






27. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






28. A conditioned stimulus which has the property of producing a specific behavior.






29. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






30. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)






31. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






32. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.






33. To remove from the environment.






34. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Partial Reinforcement Maintenance)






35. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.






36. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






37. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.






38. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






39. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.






40. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.






41. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.






42. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.






43. To automatically bring about a response.






44. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.






45. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.






46. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.






47. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.






48. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.






49. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)






50. When a stimulus acquires control of a response due to reinforcement in the presence of a similar - but different stimulus.