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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Fading
Baseline
2. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.
Terminal Response
Emit
Positive Transfer
Immediacy of Reinforcement
3. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Respondent Behavior
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Chaining
Instinct
4. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.
Approximation
Generalization
Strain
Avoidance Conditioning
5. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.
Deprivation
Incompatible Behavior
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Learning Plateau
6. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Delta
Negative
Extinction Burst
7. Measures of observed behavior.
Differential Reinforcement
Approximation
Performance
Operant or Operant Behavior
8. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Unconditioned Response
Conditioning
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
9. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Intermittent Reinforcement
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Motivation
10. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Operant Conditioning)
Differential Reinforcement
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Negative Reinforcer
Shaping
11. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.
Reinforcement
Bridge
Secondary
Negative
12. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.
Conditioned Response
Intermittent Reinforcement
Selective Reinforcement
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
13. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.
Time-Out
Attitude Shaping
Extinction
Respondent Behavior
14. Represents the particular occasion on which a performance will not be reinforced. (same as Delta)
Selective Reinforcement
Latency
Target (verb)
Stimulus Delta
15. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Selective Reinforcement
Performance
Deprivation
16. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Primary Reinforcement
Regression
Behavioral Enrichment
Differential Reinforcement
17. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Positive Punishment
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Accidental Reinforcement
Approximation
18. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.
Avoidance Conditioning
Performance
Conditioned Reinforcer
Positive
19. The cessation of stimulus or response from the trainer - for some interval of time.
Stimulus Delta
Operant or Operant Behavior
Time-Out
Shaping
20. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Extinction
Discrimination
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Repression
21. The cessation of stimulus or response from the trainer - for some interval of time.
Secondary Reinforcer
Strain
Extinction
Time-Out
22. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.
Instinct
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Regression
Unconditioned Reflex
23. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.
Time-Out
Time-Out
Secondary
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
24. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Conditioned Response
Incompatible Behavior
Proactive Inhibition
Reinforcement
25. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.
Conditioned Reinforcer
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Bridge
Incompatible Behavior
26. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.
Adverse
Negative
Stimulus Control
Extinction Burst
27. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Cue
Instinct
Positive
28. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Reinforcer
Extinction
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Avoidance Conditioning
29. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.
Conditioning
Station
Approximation
Target (verb)
30. The process by which a young animal forms a lasting attachment to and preference for some object - usually a parent.
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Imprinting
Proactive Inhibition
Positive Punishment
31. To automatically bring about a response.
Satiation
Elicit
Bridge
Conditioned Response
32. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.
Habit
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Station
Reinforcement Contingency
33. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Adverse
Bridge
Unconditioned Reflex
Regression
34. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Delta
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Station
Reinforcer
35. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Method of Approximation
Repression
Negative Reinforcer
36. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Respondent Behavior
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Positive Transfer
Stimulus Control
37. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Superstitious Behavior
Stimulus
Stimulus Control
Continuous Reinforcement
38. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Satiation
Secondary Reinforcer
Accidental Reinforcement
Latency
39. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.
Primary Reinforcement
Learning Plateau
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Attitude Shaping
40. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Stimulus
Terminal Response
41. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Satiation
Adverse
Unconditioned Response
Approximation
42. A signal which will trigger a specific behavior or reflex as a result of a learned association.
Avoidance Conditioning
Cue
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Performance
43. To remove from the environment.
Strain
Negative
Unconditioned Response
Imprinting
44. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.
Negative Reinforcer
Chaining
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Attitude Shaping
45. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Operant or Operant Behavior
Station
Approximation
Behavioral Enrichment
46. Measures of observed behavior.
Reinforcer
Performance
Differential Reinforcement
Stimulus Delta
47. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Conditioning
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Unconditioned Response
Response
48. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Respondent Behavior
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Reflex
Emit
49. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Attitude Shaping
Extinction Burst
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Unconditioned Response
50. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Behavioral Drift
Differential Reinforcement
Secondary Reinforcer
Neutral Stimulus or Cue