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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.






2. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.






3. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






5. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.






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






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






8. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






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






11. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.






19. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.






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






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






22. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






23. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






24. A lack of the desired response.






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






26. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






29. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.






30. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.






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






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






33. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.






34. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. To automatically bring about a response.






44. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






45. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






46. The act of reinforcing by touch.






47. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






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