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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






4. To automatically bring about a response.






5. A change in behavior due to experience.






6. To add to the environment.






7. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.






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






9. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.






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






19. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.






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






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






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






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






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






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






26. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






27. A conditioned stimulus which has the property of producing a specific behavior.






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






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






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






31. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






33. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






35. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






37. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






38. Measures of observed behavior.






39. To remove from the environment.






40. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






41. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.






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






43. The act of reinforcing by touch.






44. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






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






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






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






48. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






50. A change in behavior due to experience.