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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Attitude Shaping
Affiliation
Extinction
Accidental Reinforcement
2. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.
Secondary
Deprivation
Bridge
Affiliation
3. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.
Recall
Cue
Habit
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
4. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Motivation
Reward
Station
5. To automatically bring about a response.
Secondary
Elicit
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Affiliation
6. A signal which will trigger a specific behavior or reflex as a result of a learned association.
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Selective Reinforcement
Cue
Strain
7. To connect or associate oneself with.
Terminal Response
Learning
Affiliation
Superstitious Behavior
8. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Superstitious Behavior
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Terminal Response
9. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Discrimination
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Discriminative Stimulus
Instinct
10. An increase in frequency of a response which is followed by a positive reinforcer.
Positive Reinforcement
Intermittent Reinforcement
Time-Out
Emit
11. Measures of observed behavior.
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Fading
Performance
Strain
12. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Emit
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Baseline
13. A method used to shape organisms' behavior whereby successive approximations of the desired behavior are not reinforced.
Intermittent Reinforcement
Method of Approximation
Conditioned Reinforcer
Discriminative Stimulus
14. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Station
Incompatible Behavior
Conditioned Reinforcer
Unconditioned Reflex
15. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Positive Punishment
Avoidance Conditioning
Unconditioned Response
Reflex
16. A return to an earlier stage of learning.
Tactile Reinforcement
Strain
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Regression
17. When a behavior is reliably performed in the presence of one stimulus - but not another.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Extinction Burst
Baseline
Stimulus Control
18. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Continuous Reinforcement
Accidental Reinforcement
Conditioning
19. The cessation of stimulus or response from the trainer - for some interval of time.
Unconditioned Response
Deprivation
Time-Out
Target (noun)
20. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Unconditioned Response
Secondary
Motivation
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
21. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.
Baseline
Operant or Operant Behavior
Station
Respondent Behavior
22. The process of conditioning an animal's frame of mind in eliciting behavioral responses.
Respondent Behavior
Refusal
Incompatible Behavior
Attitude Shaping
23. A schedule of reinforcement in which each correct performance is followed by the reinforcer.
Positive
Imprinting
Unconditioned Response
Continuous Reinforcement
24. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Approximation
Secondary Reinforcer
Negative
Differential Reinforcement
25. Any stimulus that when removed - reduced - or prevented - increases the probability of a given response.
Learning
Negative Reinforcer
Secondary Reinforcer
Approximation
26. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Unconditioned Reflex
Time-Out
Repression
27. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.
Generalization
Deprivation
Tactile Reinforcement
Positive
28. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.
Behavioral Enrichment
Strain
Positive Reinforcement
Adverse
29. A lack of the desired response.
Refusal
Response
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Proactive Inhibition
30. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Response)
Instinct
Regression
Primary
Unconditioned Reflex
31. Any stimulus that has no effect on behavior before conditioning.
Secondary
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Recall
Discrimination
32. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Conditioned Reinforcer
Target (verb)
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Positive Punishment
33. A change in the organism's behavior as a result of the influence of the environment.
Conditioning
Selective Reinforcement
Behavioral Enrichment
Extinction
34. To add to the environment.
Performance
Positive
Positive Transfer
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
35. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Intermittent Reinforcement
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Adverse
Adverse
36. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.
Positive Punishment
Behavioral Enrichment
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Chaining
37. An inborn predisposition to behave in a specific way when appropriately stimulated.
Respondent Behavior
Instinct
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Positive Reinforcement
38. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Respondent Behavior
Stimulus
Successive Approximation
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
39. A conditioned stimulus which has the property of producing a specific behavior.
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Discriminative Stimulus
40. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.
Reward
Behavioral Drift
Unconditioned Reflex
Recall
41. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.
Elicit
Conditioned Reinforcer
Terminal Response
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
42. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Reward
Fading
Deprivation
Discrimination
43. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Terminal Response
Primary
Selective Reinforcement
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
44. Decreasing the frequency of a response by the addition of an aversive stimulus.
Stimulus Control
Positive Punishment
Stimulus
Adverse
45. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.
Chaining
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Discriminative Stimulus
Regression
46. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Cue
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Continuous Reinforcement
47. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Extinction Burst
Orienting Response
Secondary Reinforcer
Target (noun)
48. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.
Extinction Burst
Delta
Reinforcement Contingency
Behavioral Drift
49. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Reflex
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Satiation
Adverse
50. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.
Latency
Learning
Superstitious Behavior
Repression