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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






5. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.






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






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






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






9. A lack of the desired response.






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






11. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






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






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






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






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






16. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






17. To remove from the environment.






18. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.






19. To add to the environment.






20. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






23. The act of reinforcing by touch.






24. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.






25. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






27. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






28. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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






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






32. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.






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






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






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






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






37. A change in behavior due to experience.






38. To add to the environment.






39. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






42. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






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






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






46. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.






47. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






48. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.






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






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