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conditioned

conditioned

4.3
Learned to react in a certain way through repeated experience or training
  • adjective
  • /kənˈdɪʃənd/
  • Specialized
translation icon : condicionado
  • After years of training, the athletes are conditioned to perform at their best under pressure during competitions.

But it's simply a conditioned sense of self.

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Examples

  • Children are often conditioned to associate certain sounds with specific events, like a bell ringing for lunchtime.

  • Human beings are conditioned to like things or not like things.

  • It's just we're not conditioned to know it clearly.

  • I mean, we, I think, are conditioned to go after that great deal.

  • And this is something conditioned in women from the time they are born.

  • So I was, you know, kind of conditioned to want to be around people a lot.

  • We are conditioned to believe we're victims.

  • But it's simply a conditioned sense of self.

  • So these are things that are all conditioned on what's important, you know, to survive.

  • So she's clearly been conditioned to just appease him.

Synonyms

used to
vsconditioned
2.3

Comfortable with something because you do it often

stresses being formed by training and repeated association not only habit
ingrained
vsconditioned
6 6.4

Firmly fixed in a person, especially a habit or belief, so it is hard to change

refers to formation by repeated training rather than depth or permanence
accustomed
vsconditioned
5 3.4

Familiar with something because you do it often

implies influence by specific training or learned association rather than mere familiarity
learned
vsconditioned
  • Specialized
4.4

Gained by experience or training rather than being natural

highlights formation through repeated exposure and association rather than simple learning
trained
vsconditioned
1.9

Able to do something well because of practice

focuses more on repeated association and exposure than formal practice

Antonyms

unconditioned
  • Specialized
1 7.5

A natural response present at birth

Compounds

conditioned response
  • Specialized
3 4.8

A learned reaction to a signal, like a bell, that happens after the signal is often shown with something else

conditioned reflex
  • Specialized
1 5.3

An automatic response learned when a neutral sound or sign is repeatedly paired with something that naturally causes it

conditioned stimulus
  • Specialized
1 7.2

A thing that used to be neutral and now makes a learned response after being paired with a natural trigger

conditioned avoidance
  • Specialized
7.5

A learned action that lets a person or animal move away before something unpleasant happens

A learned action an animal or person does to avoid something bad after a warning signal

conditioned emotion
  • Specialized
7.7

An emotional reaction people learn when a neutral thing like a sound becomes linked with fear or pleasure

An emotional reaction you learn when something is often linked with a good or bad event

conditioned reaction
  • Specialized
5.0

A learned response that happens when a signal like a bell is paired with food many times

How Conditioned

automatic
48 3.7
conditioned
  • Specialized
4.3
trained
1.9
unconditioned
  • Specialized
1 7.5

Surface Forms

conditioned positive

Morphology

conditioned = condition (semi-transparent) = condition + ed

Morphologically regular (condition + -ed) but denotes the psychological/behavioral sense of having been trained or habituated, which is a specialized extension of the verb.

Etymology

Conditioned also comes from the same condition idea of 'train' or 'prepare' by repeated experience. That's why a conditioned response is a learned reaction or habit that appears after a person or animal has been exposed to something many times.