Test your basic knowledge |

EATM Animal Training Vocab

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.






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






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






4. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






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






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






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






10. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






18. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






19. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






21. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






22. To add to the environment.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






33. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






36. The act of reinforcing by touch.






37. To remove from the environment.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






48. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.






49. To automatically bring about a response.






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