Animal Training - Glossary

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The act of encouraging an animal to perform a desired behaviour by the static placement of a reinforcer.
Baiting
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An event marker that identifies the desired response and 'bridges' the time between the response and the delivery of the reinforcer.
Bridging stimulus
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The trainer waits for the animal to perform the desired behaviour and then reinforces as soon as the behaviour is performed.
Capture
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The process of combining multiple behaviours into a continuous sequence linked together by cues, and maintained by a reinforcer at the end of the chain.
Chaining
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A noisemaker.
Clicker
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A stimulus that elicits a behaviour. Can be verbal, physical or environmental.
Cue
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The weakening of behaviour through non-reinforcement or 'ignoring' the behaviour.
Extinction
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If a previously reinforced behaviour is not reinforced, the animal will increase the intensity or frequency of the behaviour in an attempt to earn the reinforcement again. A characteristic of extinction.
Extinction burst
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A mega-reward given after a particularly exceptional effort.
Jackpot
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A hands-off method of guiding the animal through a behaviour.
Luring
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Hands-on training that involves physical manipulation of the animal to perform a desired behaviour then reinforcing it.
Moulding
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Generalisation of training by practising behaviours in a variety of situations with different levels of distraction.
Proofing
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A stimulus which when presented to an animal, increases the likelihood of a behaviour occurring.
Reinforcer
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The value of a stimulus to the animal.
Salience
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Reinforcing successive appropriate approximations of a desired behaviour.
Shaping
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Any behaviours that get the individual closer to the desired behaviour.
Successive Approximations
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An event marker that identifies the desired response and 'bridges' the time between the response and the delivery of the reinforcer.

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Bridging stimulus

Card 3

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The trainer waits for the animal to perform the desired behaviour and then reinforces as soon as the behaviour is performed.

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Card 4

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The process of combining multiple behaviours into a continuous sequence linked together by cues, and maintained by a reinforcer at the end of the chain.

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Card 5

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A noisemaker.

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