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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.
Learning
Attitude Shaping
Deprivation
Baseline
2. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.
Stimulus
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Method of Approximation
3. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Chaining
Terminal Response
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
4. When a stimulus acquires control of a response due to reinforcement in the presence of a similar - but different stimulus.
Reinforcement
Primary Reinforcement
Generalization
Chaining
5. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Behavioral Drift
Fading
Behavioral Drift
Behavioral Enrichment
6. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.
Superstitious Behavior
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Accidental Reinforcement
Continuous Reinforcement
7. To connect or associate oneself with.
Baseline
Cue
Affiliation
Conditioned Response
8. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Discriminative Stimulus
Reinforcer
Continuous Reinforcement
Conditioned Reinforcer
9. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Adverse
Terminal Response
Successive Approximation
Shaping
10. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Performance
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Reward
11. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Stimulus Control
Emit
Imprinting
12. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)
Unconditioned Reflex
Successive Approximation
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
13. A change in behavior due to experience.
Learning
Station
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Refusal
14. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Tactile Reinforcement
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Stimulus Delta
Terminal Response
15. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.
Intermittent Reinforcement
Stimulus
Target (verb)
Positive Punishment
16. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Baseline
Performance
Positive Reinforcement
Conditioning
17. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Selective Reinforcement
Reward
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Secondary Reinforcer
18. The point at which appetite is lost.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Behavioral Drift
Satiation
19. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Fading
Successive Approximation
Attitude Shaping
Station
20. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Reinforcement
Shaping
Reinforcement Contingency
21. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.
Successive Approximation
Behavioral Enrichment
Learning Plateau
Operant or Operant Behavior
22. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.
Terminal Response
Behavioral Drift
Intermittent Reinforcement
Target (noun)
23. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Positive Punishment
Accidental Reinforcement
Reinforcer
Imprinting
24. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.
Conditioning
Generalization
Behavioral Enrichment
Extinction
25. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.
Selective Reinforcement
Positive Punishment
Bridge
Learning Plateau
26. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Tactile Reinforcement
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Delta
27. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Reinforcement Contingency
Continuous Reinforcement
Extinction Burst
Conditioning
28. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Behavioral Enrichment
Response
Strain
29. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.
Approximation
Extinction Burst
Negative Reinforcer
Imprinting
30. To add to the environment.
Positive
Accidental Reinforcement
Reinforcement Contingency
Positive Reinforcement
31. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.
Reinforcer
Repression
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Emit
32. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Generalization
Incompatible Behavior
Primary Reinforcement
Repression
33. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Selective Reinforcement
Target (noun)
Prompt
Differential Reinforcement
34. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Selective Reinforcement
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Satiation
35. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Stimulus
Affiliation
Discrimination
Superstitious Behavior
36. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Approximation
Regression
Continuous Reinforcement
37. A stimulus that an animal responds to because its perception has been conditioned or learned.
Negative Reinforcer
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Secondary
Accidental Reinforcement
38. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.
Extinction
Motivation
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
39. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Response
Stimulus
Regression
Respondent Behavior
40. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.
Discrimination
Station
Avoidance Conditioning
Learning Plateau
41. A stimulus that an animal responds to because its perception has been conditioned or learned.
Reinforcement
Stimulus Control
Instinct
Secondary
42. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Fading
Avoidance Conditioning
Superstitious Behavior
Superstitious Behavior
43. To remove from the environment.
Negative
Behavioral Drift
Learning
Time-Out
44. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Target (noun)
Operant or Operant Behavior
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
45. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Reflex
Secondary
Stimulus
46. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Discriminative Stimulus
Discrimination
Elicit
Accidental Reinforcement
47. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.
Discrimination
Instinct
Repression
Motivation
48. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Satiation
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Discrimination
Imprinting
49. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Primary Reinforcement
Avoidance Conditioning
Positive Reinforcement
Reflex
50. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Partial Reinforcement Maintenance)
Intermittent Reinforcement
Conditioned Response
Performance
Differential Reinforcement