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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






2. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






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






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






8. To automatically bring about a response.






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






10. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.






11. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






12. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






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






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






16. To connect or associate oneself with.






17. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






19. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






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






23. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






24. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






26. Measures of observed behavior.






27. To remove from the environment.






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






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






30. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.






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






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






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






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






35. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






38. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.






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






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






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






42. To add to the environment.






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






44. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.






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






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






47. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






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