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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






2. To add to the environment.






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






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






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






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






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






8. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






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






19. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






21. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






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






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






34. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)






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






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






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






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






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






40. Measures of observed behavior.






41. A change in behavior due to experience.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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