CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Conditioning that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that evokes a reflex; the stimulus that evokes the reflex is given whether or not the conditioned response occurs until eventually the neutral stimulus comes to evoke the reflex

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("classical conditioning" is a kind of...):

conditioning (a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment)

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