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conditioning
[kuhn-dish-uh-ning]
noun
Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning.a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
Also called classical conditioning, Pavlovian conditioning, respondent conditioning.a process in which a stimulus that was previously neutral, as the sound of a bell, comes to evoke a particular response, as salivation, by being repeatedly paired with another stimulus that normally evokes the response, as the taste of food.
conditioning
Other 51Թ Forms
- self-conditioning adjective
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of conditioning1
Example Sentences
Making his first offseason appearance at the Chargers’ facility this week as the team started mandatory minicamp, Slater immediately passed the team’s conditioning test.
Prosecutors also said the organization steered money to Do’s other daughter through an air conditioning company.
Nazi architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg argued that it was not social conditioning that produced such despicable degenerates, but race, and in particular race-mixing.
All the subjects took turns in an MRI machine, where the researchers induced auditory hallucinations with classical conditioning, following the example of Pavlov and his dogs.
Maybe you'll even be able to give your air conditioning a quick break?
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