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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






15. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






19. To remove from the environment.






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






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






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






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






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






25. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






26. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






28. To automatically bring about a response.






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






30. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






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






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






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






36. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






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






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






41. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






50. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.