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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.
Reinforcement
Bridge
Orienting Response
Approximation
2. Anything that increases the frequency of the behavior it immediately follows.
Regression
Tactile Reinforcement
Positive Transfer
Reinforcer
3. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Imprinting
Secondary Reinforcer
Extinction
Respondent Behavior
4. A payment for a correct response to a stimulus.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Chaining
Primary
Reward
5. An assigned position for an animal - designated by a trainer.
Baseline
Behavioral Enrichment
Station
Positive Reinforcement
6. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Behavioral Enrichment
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Adverse
Method of Approximation
7. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Bridge
Positive
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
8. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Prompt
Accidental Reinforcement
Proactive Inhibition
9. A change in behavior due to experience.
Learning
Station
Habit
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
10. Decreasing the frequency of a response by the addition of an aversive stimulus.
Reflex
Deprivation
Terminal Response
Positive Punishment
11. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.
Positive Punishment
Unconditioned Response
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Secondary Reinforcer
12. An increase in the frequency and intensity of responding at the beginning of extinction.
Approximation
Method of Approximation
Extinction Burst
Satiation
13. A reinforcer follows any performance the animal emits except a particular one.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Delta
Terminal Response
Proactive Inhibition
14. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Learning Plateau
Cue
Negative
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
15. A period in which progress in learning appears to be at a standstill.
Learning Plateau
Affiliation
Tactile Reinforcement
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
16. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Approximation
Prompt
Positive Reinforcement
17. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Prompt
Negative Reinforcer
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
18. A coincidence between a performance and a reinforcer.
Accidental Reinforcement
Latency
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
19. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Behavioral Enrichment
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
20. To do an operant behavior in response to a conditioned stimulus.
Cue
Latency
Recall
Emit
21. A situation in which an organism wants something but is afraid of obtaining it.
Proactive Inhibition
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Bridge
22. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Positive Reinforcement
Respondent Behavior
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Tactile Reinforcement
23. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Positive Transfer
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Avoidance Conditioning
24. The failure of an operant behavior caused by previous aversive consequences.
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Station
Repression
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
25. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.
Method of Approximation
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Response
Emit
26. Measures of observed behavior.
Continuous Reinforcement
Performance
Fading
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
27. Refers to the relationship between the reinforcement and the criteria of the performance.
Affiliation
Reinforcer
Reinforcement Contingency
Continuous Reinforcement
28. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.
Reinforcer
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Fading
Discrimination
29. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.
Cue
Orienting Response
Discrimination
Performance
30. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Positive Reinforcement
Repression
Incompatible Behavior
Conditioning
31. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Performance
Reinforcer
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Selective Reinforcement
32. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Partial Reinforcement Maintenance)
Intermittent Reinforcement
Refusal
Method of Approximation
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
33. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.
Superstitious Behavior
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Successive Approximation
34. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Operant Conditioning)
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Secondary Reinforcer
Positive
35. A lack of the desired response.
Method of Approximation
Refusal
Imprinting
Method of Approximation
36. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Emit
Respondent Behavior
Operant or Operant Behavior
37. A neutral event which has become aversive by being paired with other aversive stimuli.
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Strain
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Orienting Response
38. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.
Attitude Shaping
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Terminal Response
Stimulus Control
39. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Reflex)
Respondent Behavior
Response
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
Incompatible Behavior
40. When a stimulus acquires control of a response due to reinforcement in the presence of a similar - but different stimulus.
Discrimination
Affiliation
Generalization
Performance
41. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Baseline
Fading
Elicit
Target (noun)
42. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Unconditioned Reflex
Positive Transfer
Bridge
43. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.
Avoidance Conditioning
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Unconditioned Reflex
Conditioned Response
44. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.
Avoidance Conditioning
Fading
Accidental Reinforcement
Conditioned Response
45. Describes the decreased frequency of a performance that occurs when the performance is not reinforced frequently enough.
Motivation
Conditioned Reinforcer
Strain
Proactive Inhibition
46. The frequency that behavior is performed prior to training.
Chaining
Baseline
Negative Reinforcer
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
47. To connect or associate oneself with.
Affiliation
Respondent Behavior
Reward
Unconditioned Response
48. To add to the environment.
Stimulus Delta
Fading
Positive
Generalization
49. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Adverse
Affiliation
Selective Reinforcement
Successive Approximation
50. Time between a cue being given and a response being performed.
Conditioned Reinforcer
Positive Reinforcement
Unconditioned Reflex
Latency