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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Discrimination
Elicit
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
2. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Motivation
Cue
Behavioral Enrichment
3. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Negative
Delta
Approximation
Regression
4. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Delta
Incompatible Behavior
Terminal Response
5. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Latency
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Selective Reinforcement
6. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Positive Transfer
Elicit
Proactive Inhibition
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
7. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Behavioral Enrichment
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Reflex
8. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Proactive Inhibition
Secondary
Discrimination
9. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.
Response
Extinction Burst
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Prompt
10. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.
Positive Reinforcement
Conditioning
Station
Latency
11. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Elicit
Tactile Reinforcement
Target (noun)
Approximation
12. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Primary
Affiliation
Differential Reinforcement
Positive Reinforcement
13. Measures of observed behavior.
Method of Approximation
Performance
Time-Out
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
14. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.
Conditioned Reinforcer
Recall
Regression
Chaining
15. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Reward
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Method of Approximation
Latency
16. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Elicit
Refusal
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Accidental Reinforcement
17. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Prompt
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Incompatible Behavior
Shaping
18. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Orienting Response
Stimulus
Instinct
Conditioned Reinforcer
19. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Respondent Behavior
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Shaping
Bridge
20. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.
Incompatible Behavior
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Proactive Inhibition
Positive Punishment
21. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Shaping
Respondent Behavior
Avoidance Conditioning
Emit
22. A change in behavior due to experience.
Extinction Burst
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Learning
23. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Discrimination
Proactive Inhibition
Shaping
24. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Intermittent Reinforcement
Refusal
Respondent Behavior
Operant or Operant Behavior
25. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Affiliation
Secondary Reinforcer
Extinction
26. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Shaping
Superstitious Behavior
Successive Approximation
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
27. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.
Extinction
Imprinting
Stimulus Control
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
28. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Affiliation
Shaping
Reinforcer
Conditioned Response
29. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.
Repression
Reinforcement
Elicit
Conditioned Response
30. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Regression
Response
31. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Primary Reinforcement
Accidental Reinforcement
Elicit
Primary
32. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Recall
Negative Reinforcer
Refusal
33. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Avoidance Conditioning
Refusal
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Selective Reinforcement
34. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Stimulus Control
Superstitious Behavior
Fading
Selective Reinforcement
35. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Tactile Reinforcement
Instinct
36. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Refusal
Instinct
Discrimination
37. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Positive
Motivation
Positive Transfer
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
38. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Delta
Instinct
Imprinting
39. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Conditioned Response
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Learning Plateau
40. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Positive Reinforcement
Chaining
Learning Plateau
Negative Reinforcer
41. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Instinct
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Repression
Unconditioned Reinforcer
42. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Behavioral Enrichment
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Operant or Operant Behavior
43. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Adverse
Avoidance Conditioning
Affiliation
Conditioned Reinforcer
44. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.
Time-Out
Repression
Delta
Deprivation
45. To connect or associate oneself with.
Affiliation
Time-Out
Unconditioned Response
Delta
46. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Recall
Primary
Latency
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
47. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.
Positive Transfer
Baseline
Instinct
Discrimination
48. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.
Recall
Target (verb)
Conditioning
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
49. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Reward
Reinforcement Contingency
Cue
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
50. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Adverse
Conditioning
Positive Transfer
Performance