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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.
Learning Plateau
Repression
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Response
2. A lack of the desired response.
Proactive Inhibition
Refusal
Stimulus
Generalization
3. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Stimulus
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Primary Reinforcement
4. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Fading
Differential Reinforcement
Strain
Approximation
5. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.
Successive Approximation
Learning Plateau
Attitude Shaping
Method of Approximation
6. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Conditioning
Elicit
Respondent Behavior
Strain
7. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Stimulus
Unconditioned Reflex
Instinct
Respondent Behavior
8. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Recall
Successive Approximation
Differential Reinforcement
9. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Reinforcement
Stimulus Control
Unconditioned Response
10. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.
Avoidance Conditioning
Habit
Selective Reinforcement
Positive Transfer
11. A stimulus that an animal responds to because its perception has been conditioned or learned.
Adverse
Secondary
Prompt
Primary
12. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Latency
Time-Out
Learning
Conditioned Reinforcer
13. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Positive Transfer
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Secondary
Operant or Operant Behavior
14. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Bridge
Instinct
15. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Reinforcement Contingency
Conditioned Response
Target (verb)
Emit
16. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.
Behavioral Enrichment
Performance
Chaining
Unconditioned Reinforcer
17. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Secondary Reinforcer
Performance
Extinction Burst
Continuous Reinforcement
18. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Discriminative Stimulus
Primary
Stimulus Control
19. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.
Positive Reinforcement
Positive Punishment
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Successive Approximation
20. To add to the environment.
Positive
Method of Approximation
Fading
Imprinting
21. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Prompt
Secondary Reinforcer
22. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Refusal
Positive Punishment
Response
Positive Transfer
23. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Stimulus Control
Reinforcer
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Positive
24. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.
Conditioned Response
Reinforcement Contingency
Imprinting
Primary Reinforcement
25. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Attitude Shaping
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Target (noun)
Latency
26. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Tactile Reinforcement
Target (noun)
Refusal
Conditioned Reinforcer
27. Measures of observed behavior.
Negative
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Imprinting
Performance
28. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Recall
Method of Approximation
Extinction
Reflex
29. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Elicit
Strain
Operant or Operant Behavior
Regression
30. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Positive Reinforcement
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Behavioral Enrichment
31. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Fading
Bridge
Primary Reinforcement
Target (noun)
32. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Behavioral Enrichment
Proactive Inhibition
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Shaping
33. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.
Reinforcer
Delta
Fading
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
34. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Conditioned Response
Fading
Strain
Extinction
35. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Time-Out
Latency
Performance
Bridge
36. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.
Positive
Latency
Behavioral Drift
Primary
37. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Shaping
Learning
Positive Transfer
Chaining
38. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Motivation
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Learning Plateau
39. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Target (noun)
Reward
Imprinting
Recall
40. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.
Approximation
Continuous Reinforcement
Baseline
Cue
41. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Operant Conditioning)
Attitude Shaping
Latency
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Target (noun)
42. Measures of observed behavior.
Performance
Habit
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Positive Punishment
43. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.
Repression
Method of Approximation
Bridge
Delta
44. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Stimulus Delta
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Extinction
45. To automatically bring about a response.
Elicit
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Baseline
Secondary Reinforcer
46. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.
Learning Plateau
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Prompt
47. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Accidental Reinforcement
Satiation
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Operant or Operant Behavior
48. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.
Performance
Response
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Selective Reinforcement
49. Represents the particular occasion on which a performance will not be reinforced. (same as Delta)
Continuous Reinforcement
Stimulus Delta
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Conditioned Response
50. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.
Learning
Orienting Response
Learning Plateau
Immediacy of Reinforcement