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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






3. A signal which will trigger a specific behavior or reflex as a result of a learned association.






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






5. A lack of the desired response.






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






7. Represents the particular occasion on which a performance will not be reinforced. (same as Delta)






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






9. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






10. Decreasing the frequency of a response by the addition of an aversive stimulus.






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






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






13. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.






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






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






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






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






18. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.






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






20. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






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






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






25. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






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






28. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.






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






30. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.






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






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






33. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






34. The cessation of stimulus or response from the trainer - for some interval of time.






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






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






37. A stimulus that an animal responds to because its perception has been conditioned or learned.






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






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






40. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






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






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






45. Measures of observed behavior.






46. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






48. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.






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






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