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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






2. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






4. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






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






20. A change in behavior due to experience.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






31. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






33. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






35. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






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






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






41. To automatically bring about a response.






42. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






45. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






47. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






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






50. To connect or associate oneself with.