CONDITIONED STIMULUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conditioned stimulus mean? 

• CONDITIONED STIMULUS (noun)
  The noun CONDITIONED STIMULUS has 1 sense:

1. the stimulus that is the occasion for a conditioned response

  Familiarity information: CONDITIONED STIMULUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDITIONED STIMULUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The stimulus that is the occasion for a conditioned response

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("conditioned stimulus" is a kind of...):

input; stimulant; stimulation; stimulus (any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action)

 Context examples 

Learned behaviors include conditioned behavioral activation and approach responses to the conditioned stimulus odor.

(Olfactory Learning, NCI Thesaurus)

The model uses odorant conditioned stimuli temporally paired with unconditioned stimuli to produce conditioned responses to the odorant.

(Olfactory Learning, NCI Thesaurus)