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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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1. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.






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






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






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






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






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






7. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






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






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






10. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.






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






12. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






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






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






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






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






18. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.






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






20. To remove from the environment.






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






22. A stimulus that an animal responds to innately.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






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






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






41. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.






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






43. Behavior which results from accidental reinforcement.






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






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






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






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






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






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






50. A lack of the desired response.