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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. To add to the environment.






2. A lack of the desired response.






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






4. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






5. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






15. A change or stray from the norm in standard of response.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






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






28. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






30. A change in behavior due to experience.






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






32. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






36. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.