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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






20. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






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






23. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






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






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






28. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. To add to the environment.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






44. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






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






47. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






50. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.







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