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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






6. To add to the environment.






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






8. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.






16. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






17. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






20. A single step in the reinforcement process of shaping.






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






22. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






23. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






24. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






32. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






36. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.






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






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






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






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






41. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. To remove from the environment.