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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Generalization
Positive Transfer
Accidental Reinforcement
2. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Behavioral Enrichment
Deprivation
Motivation
Negative Reinforcer
3. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.
Extinction
Method of Approximation
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Imprinting
4. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Motivation
Stimulus
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Unconditioned Response
5. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Delta
Generalization
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
6. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.
Terminal Response
Learning Plateau
Accidental Reinforcement
Attitude Shaping
7. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Respondent Behavior
Extinction
Extinction Burst
8. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Unconditioned Response
Operant or Operant Behavior
Negative Reinforcer
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
9. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.
Response
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Attitude Shaping
Unconditioned Response
10. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Reward
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Proactive Inhibition
11. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Accidental Reinforcement
Continuous Reinforcement
Baseline
Primary Reinforcement
12. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Selective Reinforcement
Stimulus Control
13. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.
Reinforcement
Elicit
Secondary Reinforcer
Discriminative Stimulus
14. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Incompatible Behavior
Avoidance Conditioning
Continuous Reinforcement
Target (noun)
15. The point at which appetite is lost.
Imprinting
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Discriminative Stimulus
Satiation
16. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.
Attitude Shaping
Discriminative Stimulus
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Positive Reinforcement
17. When a stimulus acquires control of a response due to reinforcement in the presence of a similar - but different stimulus.
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Orienting Response
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Generalization
18. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Continuous Reinforcement
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Behavioral Enrichment
Reward
19. To automatically bring about a response.
Habit
Elicit
Instinct
Conditioning
20. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.
Primary Reinforcement
Deprivation
Behavioral Drift
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
21. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Adverse
Reward
Positive
Shaping
22. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Adverse
Differential Reinforcement
Operant or Operant Behavior
23. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.
Stimulus Control
Accidental Reinforcement
Learning Plateau
Deprivation
24. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.
Behavioral Drift
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Discriminative Stimulus
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
25. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Stimulus Control
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Behavioral Enrichment
26. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Primary Reinforcement
Recall
Proactive Inhibition
Station
27. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Primary Reinforcement
Imprinting
Successive Approximation
Incompatible Behavior
28. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.
Habit
Target (noun)
Negative
Incompatible Behavior
29. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Selective Reinforcement
Stimulus Control
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
30. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Positive Transfer
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Extinction Burst
Recall
31. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Response
Attitude Shaping
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Respondent Behavior
32. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Conditioning
Regression
Continuous Reinforcement
Unconditioned Response
33. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Reflex
Incompatible Behavior
Response
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
34. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Repression
Respondent Behavior
Successive Approximation
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
35. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.
Time-Out
Performance
Orienting Response
Approximation
36. A change in behavior due to experience.
Habit
Learning
Learning Plateau
Station
37. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Bridge
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Approximation
Reward
38. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Negative
Extinction Burst
Reinforcer
Adverse
39. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.
Emit
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Performance
Prompt
40. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.
Chaining
Avoidance Conditioning
Positive Punishment
Adverse
41. A signal which will trigger a specific behavior or reflex as a result of a learned association.
Cue
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Imprinting
Extinction Burst
42. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)
Successive Approximation
Recall
Avoidance Conditioning
Unconditioned Reflex
43. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.
Baseline
Reward
Operant or Operant Behavior
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
44. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Conditioning
Respondent Behavior
Shaping
Unconditioned Reflex
45. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Primary
Strain
Baseline
46. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Incompatible Behavior
Tactile Reinforcement
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Repression
47. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.
Target (verb)
Instinct
Primary Reinforcement
Imprinting
48. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Reinforcer
Secondary Reinforcer
Target (verb)
Unconditioned Reinforcer
49. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Fading
Refusal
Reward
Proactive Inhibition
50. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Latency
Satiation
Positive Transfer
Unconditioned Reflex