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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






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






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






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






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






7. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. The point at which appetite is lost.






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






18. A change in behavior due to experience.






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






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






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






22. The process of learning a sequence of behaviors that proceeds semi-automatically in a determinate order.






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






24. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






25. Measures of observed behavior.






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. A lack of the desired response.






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






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






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






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






37. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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