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EATM Animal Training Vocab

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






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






3. A stimulus which has been conditioned through generalization as a predecessor to an aversive stimulus.






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






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






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






7. Voluntary behavior that is controlled by its consequences.






8. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






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






11. To automatically bring about a response.






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






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






14. Delivery of a reinforcer after a response that is incompatible or competes with a target response that is to be suppressed.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. The act of reinforcing by touch.






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






24. Learning to react differently to different stimuli.






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






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






27. A recurrent pattern of behavior acquired through experience.






28. Using a sound or cue to bring the animal back to station.






29. An identifiable demonstration of behavior.






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






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






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






33. Represents the particular occasion on which a performance will not be reinforced. (same as Delta)






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






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






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






37. To remove from the environment.






38. Measures of observed behavior.






39. An antecedent event that helps initiate a response.






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






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






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






43. To connect or associate oneself with.






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






45. Stimulus which indicates a specific behavior will be punished or not reinforced.






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






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






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






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






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