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classical conditioning

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A learning process by which a subject comes to respond in a specific way to a previously neutral stimulus after the subject repeatedly encounters the neutral stimulus together with another stimulus that already elicits the response.

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  • noun psychology The use of a neutral stimulus, originally paired with one that invokes a response, to generate a conditioned response

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  • noun conditioning that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that evokes a reflex; the stimulus that evokes the reflex is given whether or not the conditioned response occurs until eventually the neutral stimulus comes to evoke the reflex

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