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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. A change in behavior due to experience.






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






18. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






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






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






22. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






25. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






26. Measures of observed behavior.






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






28. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. A lack of the desired response.






36. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. To connect or associate oneself with.






48. To add to the environment.






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






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