self-conditioning
ə noun Psychology.
1.
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.
2.
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.
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| —n | |
| 1. | psychol classical conditioning See also instrumental learning the learning process by which the behaviour of an organism becomes dependent on an event occurring in its environment |
| —adj | |
| 2. | (of a shampoo, cosmetic, etc) intended to improve the condition of something: a conditioning rinse |
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Word Origin & History
condition
early 14c., from O.Fr. condition, from L. condicionem (nom. condicio) "agreement, situation," from condicere "to speak with, talk together," from com- "together" + dicere "to speak" (see diction). Evolution of meaning through "stipulation, condition," to "situation, mode
of being." The verb meaning "to bring to a desired condition" is from 1850.
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conditioning con·di·tion·ing (kən-dĭsh'ə-nĭng)
n.
A process of behavior modification by which a subject comes to associate a desired behavior with a previously unrelated stimulus.
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conditioning  (kən-dĭsh'ə-nĭng) Pronunciation Key
See classical conditioning. |
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