What is a Punisher - ANSWER anything the learner will try to avoid and reduce
the likelihood that the action will reoccur.
Primary reinforcers: food, reproductive opportunity, water, physical and mental
security, and occasionally play.
Secondary Reinforcer - Answer The stimulus is associated with or predicting a
major reinforcer. For example, a clicker predicts food.
Tertiary Reinforcer - Answer A behaviour or stimulus that has been linked with
or predicts a subsequent reinforcer; this helps construct behaviour chains.
Stimulus definition: Something that prompts a behaviour.
ANSWER definition: ANSWER A behavior triggered by a stimuli.
Consequence: ANSWER What happens in ANSWER to the learner's conduct
(e.g., reinforcement, punishment, or nothing). Varies according to the learner.
Counter-conditioned stimulus - ANSWER A stimulus/ANSWER with a
different, redefined meaning than previously learned.
Sensitization - Answer To become hyperaware or attentive to a stimulus.
Desensitization: ANSWER To become less attentive and sensitive to a stimulus
by a technique or intentional practice.
Adaptation - Answer Physical/sensory systems have become weary.
, Habituation - Answer To become less aware/sensitive to a stimuli as a result of
having "been there, done that" and the stimulus being/being there at all times.
Overlearning - Answer Practice until the lesson is grasped, regardless of how
the material is given.
Poisoned Cue - ANSWER When a negative connotation is established to a cue.
Eustress - ANSWER "Good" stress--learner is primed and eager to participate in
learning; is a pleasant state of arousal.
ANSWER "Bad" stress: the learner is overwhelmed and overloaded with stress
chemicals.
ANSWER dogs will show relaxing indications and have a lesser problem-
solving capacity.
Elicited behavior - ANSWER involuntary, reflexive, or emotional behavior.
What kind of training can be used to modify evoked behavior? - ANSWER
Classical Conditioning
Emitted behavior: ANSWER A voluntary chosen behavior.
When teaching through operant learning/conditioning, we are looking for:
ANSWER Emitted Behavior.
Extinction definition - answer Removing reinforcement from a conditioned
behavior reduces or eliminates its frequency.
Extinction Burst Definition - ANSWER Early in extinction, behavior increases
in frequency and intensity.
Spontaneous Recovery Definition - Answer "backsliding" in recover/extinction
What is the Premack Principle? - Answer A more likely behavior can reinforce
a less likely behaviour.
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