conditioned emotional response
- noun
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respuesta emocional condicionada
- Children may exhibit a conditioned emotional response such as fear when they hear thunder if it is paired with frightening experiences.
Examples
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She developed a strong conditioned emotional response to the sound of the bell.
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His conditioned emotional response to the smell of cookies made him feel nostalgic.
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A conditioned emotional response can develop after repeated associations between a stimulus and an unpleasant event.
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The sight of the laboratory caused a conditioned emotional response of anxiety in the test subject.
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A conditioned emotional response can be triggered by the sound of a bell, reminding someone of a past experience.
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Many animals show a conditioned emotional response of fear when they hear a loud noise associated with punishment.
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After several instances of being frightened by the dark, he had developed a conditioned emotional response of anxiety whenever the lights went out.
Synonyms
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An immediate feeling after hearing or seeing something
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A learned reaction to a signal, like a bell, that happens after the signal is often shown with something else
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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
An emotional reaction learned when a neutral thing is linked to something scary
An emotional reaction people learn when a neutral thing like a sound becomes linked with fear or pleasure
A learned response that happens when a signal like a bell is paired with food many times
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
An automatic learned reaction to a signal after repeated practice, for example a dog drooling at a bell
A way of acting you get from practice or experience
How Emotionally Intelligent
Surface Forms
Morphology
conditioned + emotional + response
All three constituents contribute their ordinary meanings: 'conditioned' (learned by association), 'emotional' (relating to feelings), and 'response' (a reaction), so the phrase literally denotes a learned emotional reaction. This compositional structure is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the component words can reliably infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Conditioned emotional response comes from old learning experiments where a neutral thing such as a sound or a place was always followed by something that caused a strong feeling. After this happened many times, the neutral thing alone began to cause that feeling, so the phrase means 'a learned emotional reaction'. The parts conditioned ('trained'), emotional ('feeling') and response ('reaction') show this idea.