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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






9. A change in behavior due to experience.






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






11. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






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






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






15. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.






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






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






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






19. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






25. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






28. To connect or associate oneself with.






29. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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






32. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






34. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. The cessation of stimulus or response from the trainer - for some interval of time.






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






45. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






48. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






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