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conditioning

[ kuhn-dish-uh-ning ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Psychology.

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

/ kən-dĭsh′ə-nĭng /

First recorded in 1915–20; condition + -ing ¹

There are fans, but Hetflaisz never once saw an air-conditioning unit—and temperatures get up to 100 degrees.

I had to throw out all of my American conditioning toward the workplace.

At 4:00 p.m. on a hot summer day, lots of people turn on their air conditioning at the same time.

Conway refers to the other important factors as the “three ‘A’s”: air conditioning, assimilation, and airfare.

The bus had no air-conditioning and was filled with Arab families.

There was a faint hum that built up all over the ship as the air conditioning came on at the same time.

Frankly, if it would do any good, I might even consider breaking one or two of the laws, and the devil with my conditioning.

Physical conditioning, systems of exercise, experimentation in chemotherapy are still being undertaken.

After ten years of study, our conditioning was to lift slowly, so that we would realize who and what we were.

I said our air-conditioning system goes haywire and that we were ripping out a thousand old boilers and coolers.

April 19, 2024tortuous

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