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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






3. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)






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






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






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






7. To add to the environment.






8. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.






9. The cessation of stimulus or response from the trainer - for some interval of time.






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






11. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.






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






22. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






31. The cessation of stimulus or response from the trainer - for some interval of time.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






49. A lack of the desired response.






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