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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. Measures of observed behavior.






10. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






12. The event which increases the frequency of the behavior it follows.






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






14. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






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






18. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






27. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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






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






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






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






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






34. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






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






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






38. Measures of observed behavior.






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






40. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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