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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






5. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.






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






7. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. The point at which appetite is lost.






23. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






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






27. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






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






30. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






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






35. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






37. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






40. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






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






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






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






46. Measures of observed behavior.






47. To automatically bring about a response.






48. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.






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






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