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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






2. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.






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






11. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






12. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.






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






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






15. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






17. A signal which will trigger a specific behavior or reflex as a result of a learned association.






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






19. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.






20. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.






21. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.






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






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






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






25. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






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






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






29. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






40. A change in behavior due to experience.






41. A change in behavior due to experience.






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






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






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






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






46. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.






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






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






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






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