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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






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






4. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






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






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






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






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






10. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.






11. To add to the environment.






12. To add to the environment.






13. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.






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






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






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






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






18. A change in behavior due to experience.






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






20. To automatically bring about a response.






21. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






23. To remove from the environment.






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






25. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






30. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)






31. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






32. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.






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






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






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






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






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






38. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






41. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.






42. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.






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






44. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.






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






46. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.






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






48. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.






49. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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