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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






4. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






6. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






8. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






11. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.






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






13. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.






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






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






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






17. To add to the environment.






18. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






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






21. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






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






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






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






27. Measures of observed behavior.






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






29. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






32. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






35. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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






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






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






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






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






42. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






44. To add to the environment.






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






46. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






49. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






50. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.