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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.






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






3. A lack of the desired response.






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






5. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






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






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






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






11. Measures of observed behavior.






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






13. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






19. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






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






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






23. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






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






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






28. To remove from the environment.






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






36. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






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






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






40. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






41. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. A change in behavior due to experience.






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






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