conditioned response
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- noun
- /kənˈdɪʃənd rɪˈspɑns/
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respuesta condicionada
- After months of training, the dog learned to sit at the sound of the bell; this was a classic example of a conditioned response.
Examples
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Ciborowski and Jahoda both suggested that superstition was an accumulation of conditioned responses that provided a foundation for a conscious belief about causality.
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Do the opposite-gender characteristics of these two high school seniors affect their interpretation of "Sisterhood," or do they have conditioned responses that have been taught and that may violate their own social and/or political beliefs?
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This is just a conditioned response.
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Training differs from duty in that training represents a conditioned response to a combat situation.
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It is all the conditioned response of a mind that lives in a particular society.
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I would contest that and place this as a conditioned response, a function of accumulated video game design.
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But if we cannot trust our minds, because they are focused on rationalizing our behavior and justifying our conditioned responses, what can we trust?
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I also noticed a deeper level: the grooves of conditioned responses I had learned as a child and maintained into young adulthood.
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It’s a conditioned response.
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As the final aspect of this study, an interesting and potentially significant phenomenon relating to conditioned responses was discovered when alcohol intake following the CPP procedure was measured.
Academic text (2016)
Synonyms
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An automatic response learned when a neutral sound or sign is repeatedly paired with something that naturally causes it
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A reaction a person develops from practice or experience, not one they are born with
A learned response that happens when a signal like a bell is paired with food many times
An automatic learned reaction to a signal after repeated practice, for example a dog drooling at a bell
A learned reaction to a sound or signal after it happens many times
A learned response that happens when a certain sound or signal appears, for example a dog drooling at a bell
A learned automatic response to a signal, for example salivating at a bell
A way of acting you get from practice or experience
How Automatic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'conditioned' (established through repeated association) modifies 'response' (a reaction), so a learner who knows both words can infer 'a learned reaction to a stimulus.' Although the term is technical in psychology, its meaning follows standard adjective + noun composition and is cross-linguistically transparent.
Etymology
Conditioned response comes from experiments where a bell was always followed by food, so a dog learned to drool when it heard the bell. That drooling became a conditioned 'trained' response, so the phrase means 'a learned reaction' to a 'signal' today.