conditioned emotional response

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Noun1.conditioned emotional response - an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning
CER, conditioned emotion
emotion - any strong feeling
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This is a "conditioned emotional response" (CER) and it tells you that he is starting to make the happy association: "Touch makes chicken happen!"
Fear-free vet visits: you can (and should) teach your dog to love those trips to the veterinary clinic!
One of the first demonstrations of this dates back to work of Estes and Skinner (1941) who found that an exteroceptive CS, previously paired with a noxious US (foot-shock), suppressed the rate of operant food-reinforced responding (i.e., conditioned emotional response paradigm, CER).
Pavlovian-instrumental transfer of the discriminative stimulus effects of nicotine and ethanol in rats
This is a conditioned emotional response (CER) - your pup's association with the stimulus at threshold distance is now positive instead of negative.
Counter-conditioning and desensitization (CC&D)
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