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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Positive Reinforcement
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Accidental Reinforcement
2. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Conditioned Response
Behavioral Enrichment
Selective Reinforcement
Selective Reinforcement
3. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Unconditioned Reflex
Positive
Extinction Burst
4. To remove from the environment.
Positive Punishment
Primary Reinforcement
Negative
Stimulus
5. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.
Extinction
Repression
Proactive Inhibition
Differential Reinforcement
6. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Reinforcement
Attitude Shaping
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
7. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Behavioral Enrichment
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Strain
Positive Transfer
8. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Incompatible Behavior
Latency
Selective Reinforcement
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
9. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Primary
Reinforcer
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Proactive Inhibition
10. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Extinction Burst
Negative Reinforcer
Adverse
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
11. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Primary Reinforcement
Intermittent Reinforcement
Incompatible Behavior
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
12. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.
Primary Reinforcement
Discrimination
Method of Approximation
Repression
13. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Differential Reinforcement
Stimulus
Respondent Behavior
Instinct
14. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Avoidance Conditioning
Conditioned Reinforcer
Station
15. The point at which appetite is lost.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Stimulus
Reinforcer
Satiation
16. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Stimulus
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Approximation
Recall
17. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.
Response
Primary Reinforcement
Deprivation
Time-Out
18. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Respondent Behavior
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Prompt
Behavioral Drift
19. A change in behavior due to experience.
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Time-Out
Learning
20. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Refusal
Unconditioned Response
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
21. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Reflex
Chaining
Target (noun)
Regression
22. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.
Reinforcement
Satiation
Shaping
Imprinting
23. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Primary
Incompatible Behavior
Satiation
Unconditioned Response
24. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.
Discriminative Stimulus
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Motivation
Primary Reinforcement
25. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.
Positive Reinforcement
Deprivation
Strain
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
26. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.
Conditioning
Conditioned Response
Latency
Discrimination
27. To automatically bring about a response.
Latency
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Attitude Shaping
Elicit
28. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Target (noun)
Positive Punishment
Discriminative Stimulus
Approximation
29. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.
Negative Reinforcer
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Baseline
Primary Reinforcement
30. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.
Primary
Performance
Learning Plateau
Attitude Shaping
31. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)
Operant or Operant Behavior
Chaining
Unconditioned Reflex
Station
32. A conditioned stimulus which has the property of producing a specific behavior.
Delta
Discriminative Stimulus
Reward
Primary
33. A lack of the desired response.
Refusal
Successive Approximation
Stimulus
Performance
34. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Reflex
Superstitious Behavior
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Time-Out
35. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Differential Reinforcement
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Shaping
Continuous Reinforcement
36. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Successive Approximation
Positive Punishment
Emit
Tactile Reinforcement
37. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Unconditioned Response
38. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.
Reinforcer
Selective Reinforcement
Refusal
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
39. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.
Positive Punishment
Target (verb)
Negative
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
40. A signal which will trigger a specific behavior or reflex as a result of a learned association.
Unconditioned Reflex
Stimulus Control
Reinforcement
Cue
41. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Target (verb)
Latency
Positive Reinforcement
Stimulus
42. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.
Extinction Burst
Prompt
Recall
Prompt
43. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.
Shaping
Strain
Attitude Shaping
Stimulus
44. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Reflex
Fading
Differential Reinforcement
Primary
45. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Continuous Reinforcement
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Strain
Approximation
46. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Delta
Method of Approximation
Reward
Behavioral Drift
47. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Cue
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Baseline
Shaping
48. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Adverse
Repression
Operant or Operant Behavior
49. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Terminal Response
Approximation
Affiliation
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
50. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.
Baseline
Habit
Behavioral Drift
Method of Approximation