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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.






2. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






4. To remove from the environment.






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






6. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






7. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.






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






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






10. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.






11. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.






12. To connect or associate oneself with.






13. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.






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






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






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






17. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.






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






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






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






21. A lack of the desired response.






22. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






24. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.






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






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






27. A change in behavior due to experience.






28. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






29. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






30. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






31. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






32. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.






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






34. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. The act of reinforcing by touch.






44. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






47. Measures of observed behavior.






48. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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