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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.






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






3. To add to the environment.






4. The act of reinforcing by touch.






5. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.






6. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.






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






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






9. Stimulus which elicits a reaction with no prior conditioning.






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






11. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






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






13. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






14. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.






15. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






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






19. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






20. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






23. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.






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






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






26. A return to an earlier stage of learning.






27. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.






36. The entire process of selectively reinforcing responses that approximate the desired response to an increasingly greater degree.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. To remove from the environment.






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






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






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






49. To automatically bring about a response.






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