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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






14. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






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






17. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.






18. Measures of observed behavior.






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






20. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






21. To remove from the environment.






22. A lack of the desired response.






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






24. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






25. A lack of the desired response.






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






27. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






30. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






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






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






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






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






36. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.






37. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






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






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






42. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






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






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






46. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.






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






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






49. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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