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EATM Animal Training Vocab
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1. Reinforcing on selected occasions at or after one variation of a behavior as opposed to another variation or behavior.
Refusal
Selective Reinforcement
Prompt
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
2. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Stimulus Control
Reflex
Reward
Time-Out
3. Tending to discourage - retard - or make more difficult.
Adverse
Avoidance Conditioning
Habit
Respondent Behavior
4. Stimuli and methods used as tools to increase interest in the environment and decrease the frequency of stereotypical behaviors.
Superstitious Behavior
Reinforcement Contingency
Response
Behavioral Enrichment
5. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Attitude Shaping
Adverse
Continuous Reinforcement
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
6. A conditioned stimulus which has the property of producing a specific behavior.
Learning Plateau
Emit
Discriminative Stimulus
Approximation
7. The act of reinforcing exactly following the desired behavior.
Reinforcement Contingency
Conditioned Response
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Incompatible Behavior
8. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Instrumental Conditioning)
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Operant Conditioning (Instrumental Conditioning)
Station
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
9. The initial phase of an organism's response to a novel stimulus.
Stimulus
Orienting Response
Positive Transfer
Generalization
10. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.
Reinforcement
Stimulus Control
Positive Punishment
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
11. To connect or associate oneself with.
Affiliation
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Fading
Positive Punishment
12. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.
Differential Reinforcement of Other Behavior (DRO)
Stimulus
Operant or Operant Behavior
Performance
13. A response that is triggered by an unconditioned stimulus without prior training. (same as Unconditioned Reflex)
Tactile Reinforcement
Unconditioned Reflex
Fading
Unconditioned Response
14. Any stimulus that acquires reinforcing properties through association with a primary reinforcement.
Imprinting
Positive Transfer
Secondary Reinforcer
Strain
15. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Partial Reinforcement Maintenance)
Intermittent Reinforcement
Accidental Reinforcement
Affiliation
Repression
16. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.
Prompt
Attitude Shaping
Positive Transfer
Stimulus Control
17. A rapid muscular response made automatically by an organism to some appropriate stimulus. (same as Respondent Behavior)
Stimulus
Motivation
Time-Out
Reflex
18. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Intermittent Reinforcement)
Shaping
Partial Reinforcement Maintenance
Adverse
Unconditioned Reinforcer
19. A stimulus that an animal responds to because its perception has been conditioned or learned.
Bridge
Positive Punishment
Pre-Aversive Stimulus
Secondary
20. A procedure to reduce the intensity of a cue.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Delta
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Fading
21. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.
Prompt
Reinforcer
Reward
Positive Punishment
22. Reducing the availability of - or access to - a reinforcer.
Positive Reinforcement
Reinforcement Contingency
Deprivation
Affiliation
23. A stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Positive Reinforcement
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Elicit
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
24. The point at which appetite is lost.
Instinct
Prompt
Satiation
Stimulus
25. Forces regulating behavior due to drives - needs - or desires.
Performance
Motivation
Conditioned Response
Refusal
26. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Operant Conditioning)
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Reinforcement
Target (verb)
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
27. A stimulus which produces a response through pairing or association.
Chaining
Conditioned Response
Conditioned Stimulus (CS)
Station
28. A reflex response elicited by a conditioned stimulus alone.
Reinforcement Contingency
Reinforcement
Conditioned Response
Regression
29. A response to a discriminative stimulus that is instrumental in avoiding a painful experience.
Satiation
Avoidance Conditioning
Superstitious Behavior
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
30. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.
Bridge
Target (verb)
Secondary Reinforcer
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
31. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.
Immediacy of Reinforcement
Avoidance Conditioning
Response
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
32. Occurs when learning on piece of material has negative effects on future learning.
Proactive Inhibition
Avoidance Conditioning
Approximation
Time-Out
33. A stimulus that pinpoints in time the precise moment of a desired response.
Emit
Negative Reinforcer
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Bridge
34. To add to the environment.
Emit
Positive
Primary Reinforcement
Conditioned Aversive Stimulus
35. The process of stimulating an animal to touch a particular object.
Bridge
Target (verb)
Unconditioned Reinforcer
Respondent Behavior
36. Any environmental condition which activated the animal's sensory perception.
Neutral Stimulus or Cue
Secondary Reinforcer
Stimulus
Superstitious Behavior
37. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.
Terminal Response
Unconditioned Stimulus (US)
Conditioning
Positive Reinforcement
38. A behavior that is impossible to occur with another at the same time.
Approximation
Conditioned Response
Intermittent Reinforcement
Incompatible Behavior
39. Some performance which is a closer approximation to the desired behavior.
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Performance
Successive Approximation
Affiliation
40. A procedure where the reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior is discontinued.
Intermittent Reinforcement
Reinforcement Contingency
Latency
Extinction
41. The act of reinforcing by touch.
Stimulus Control
Positive Reinforcement
Elicit
Tactile Reinforcement
42. The stimulus to which responses are non-reinforced or punished.
Negative Discriminative Stimulus
Adverse
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Behavioral Drift
43. The process by which - through learning - free operant behavior becomes attached to a specific stimulus. (same as Operant Conditioning)
Instrumental Conditioning (Operant Conditioning)
Repression
Avoidance Conditioning
Positive Transfer
44. Pairing a conditioned stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus to get a conditioned response.
Unconditioned Reflex
Classical or Respondant Conditioning
Fading
Chaining
45. A prop which pinpoints a critical location for an animal in training.
Repression
Extinction Burst
Conditioned Response
Target (noun)
46. A schedule of reinforcement in which a response is not reinforced every time it is performed. (same as Partial Reinforcement Maintenance)
Approach-Avoidance Conflict
Intermittent Reinforcement
Imprinting
Repression
47. A situation in which an organism is forced to choose on of two undesirable options.
Stimulus Control
Motivation
Approximation
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
48. The final pattern of behavior that organisms are expected to demonstrate after the completion of shaping procedures.
Behavioral Drift
Avoidance-Avoidance Conflict
Terminal Response
Refusal
49. Reinforcement provided by a stimulus that the organism finds inherently rewarding.
Regression
Terminal Response
Incompatible Behavior
Primary Reinforcement
50. A process in which learning is made easier by something learned previously.
Reflex
Positive Transfer
Differential Reinforcement of Incompatible Behavior (DRI)
Negative Reinforcer