classical conditioning

n. Psychology

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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classical conditioning

(Psychology) psychol the alteration in responding that occurs when two stimuli are regularly paired in close succession: the response originally given to the second stimulus comes to be given to the first. See also conditioned response

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con•di•tion•ing

(kənˈdɪʃ ə nɪŋ)

n.

1. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed.

2. Also called classical conditioning. a process in which a previously neutral stimulus comes to evoke a specific response by being repeatedly paired with another stimulus that evokes the response.

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classical conditioning - 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

conditioning - a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment

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Watson borrowed concepts from classical conditioning to explain Freud's discoveries, notably transference and displacement phenomena and in doing so pioneered the scientific appraisal of Freud's ideas in the laboratory (Watson & Morgan, 1917).

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