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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






2. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






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






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






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






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






8. A stimulus that an animal responds to because its perception has been conditioned or learned.






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






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






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






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






13. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






16. To remove from the environment.






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






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






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






20. A stimulus that an animal responds to because its perception has been conditioned or learned.






21. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.






22. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.






23. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






25. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






26. Measures of observed behavior.






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






28. Measures of observed behavior.






29. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.






30. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.






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






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






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






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






35. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.






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






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






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






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






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






41. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.






42. Represents the particular occasion on which a performance will not be reinforced. (same as Delta)






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






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






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






46. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






48. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






49. To automatically bring about a response.






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