CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does classical conditioning mean? 

• CLASSICAL CONDITIONING (noun)
  The noun CLASSICAL CONDITIONING has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: CLASSICAL CONDITIONING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLASSICAL CONDITIONING (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

Classified under:

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)

 Context examples 

A classical conditioning procedures that present different stimuli in temporal proximity (contiguity), but where resulting responses have no reinforcing or aversive consequences.

(Pavlovian Conditioning, NCI Thesaurus)