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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Strain
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Reinforcement
2. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Habit
Affiliation
3. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Refusal
Approximation
Emit
Reflex
4. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Generalization
Adverse
Satiation
Positive Transfer
5. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Repression
6. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.
Repression
Station
Secondary
Habit
7. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Reward
Conditioning
Operant or Operant Behavior
8. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Time-Out
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Conditioning
Method of Approximation
9. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Performance
Positive Punishment
10. Decreasing the frequency of a response by the addition of an aversive stimulus.
Positive Punishment
Target (verb)
Fading
Chaining
11. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Regression
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Behavioral Drift
12. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Extinction
Secondary Reinforcer
Elicit
Unconditioned Response
13. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Successive Approximation
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Adverse
14. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.
Station
Stimulus Control
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Primary Reinforcement
15. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.
Instinct
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Reinforcer
Imprinting
16. To add to the environment.
Positive
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Approximation
Orienting Response
17. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.
Reinforcement
Reward
Elicit
Recall
18. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Tactile Reinforcement
Avoidance Conditioning
Unconditioned Reflex
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
19. A lack of the desired response.
Reward
Refusal
Operant or Operant Behavior
Habit
20. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Repression
Continuous Reinforcement
Approximation
21. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Unconditioned Response
Extinction
Incompatible Behavior
Target (noun)
22. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Shaping
Learning Plateau
Reinforcer
Motivation
23. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)
Stimulus Delta
Prompt
Tactile Reinforcement
Unconditioned Reflex
24. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.
Reinforcement
Learning
Positive Reinforcement
Latency
25. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Differential Reinforcement
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Target (verb)
Cue
26. Measures of observed behavior.
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Performance
Accidental Reinforcement
Intermittent Reinforcement
27. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.
Secondary
Latency
Unconditioned Reflex
Chaining
28. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.
Extinction
Secondary
Behavioral Enrichment
Primary
29. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.
Intermittent Reinforcement
Deprivation
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Latency
30. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Continuous Reinforcement
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Reinforcement Contingency
Learning
31. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.
Unconditioned Response
Selective Reinforcement
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Incompatible Behavior
32. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Successive Approximation
Discrimination
Emit
33. A stimulus that an animal responds to because its perception has been conditioned or learned.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Secondary
Repression
Adverse
34. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Conditioned Reinforcer
Extinction Burst
35. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.
Secondary
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Fading
Learning
36. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.
Shaping
Positive Reinforcement
Positive Reinforcement
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
37. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Stimulus
Terminal Response
Proactive Inhibition
Generalization
38. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Partial Reinforcement Maintenance)
Intermittent Reinforcement
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Motivation
Time-Out
39. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Operant Conditioning)
Incompatible Behavior
Orienting Response
Negative
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
40. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Motivation
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Incompatible Behavior
41. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Fading
Primary Reinforcement
Emit
Respondent Behavior
42. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Recall
Negative Reinforcer
Differential Reinforcement
43. Represents the particular occasion on which a performance will not be reinforced. (same as Delta)
Chaining
Respondent Behavior
Affiliation
Stimulus Delta
44. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.
Conditioning
Tactile Reinforcement
Delta
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
45. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Refusal
Regression
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
46. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Accidental Reinforcement
Fading
Primary
Selective Reinforcement
47. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Adverse
Elicit
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Extinction Burst
48. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.
Method of Approximation
Selective Reinforcement
Prompt
Baseline
49. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Operant Conditioning)
Bridge
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Intermittent Reinforcement
Extinction Burst
50. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Motivation
Habit
Respondent Behavior
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance