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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






5. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.






6. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






8. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.






9. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






10. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)






11. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.






12. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.






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






14. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






15. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.






16. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.






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






18. To automatically bring about a response.






19. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.






20. To remove from the environment.






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






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






23. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






25. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






26. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.






27. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






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






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






33. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.






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






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






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






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






38. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)






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






40. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.






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






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






43. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.






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






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






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






47. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.






48. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






49. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.






50. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.