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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






10. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.






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






12. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






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






14. To connect or associate oneself with.






15. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.






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






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






18. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






41. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






42. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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