CONDITIONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conditioning mean? 

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

1. a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONDITIONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

acquisition; learning (the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conditioning"):

experimental extinction; extinction (a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus)

aversive conditioning (conditioning to avoid an aversive stimulus)

classical conditioning (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)

operant conditioning (conditioning in which an operant response is brought under stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement contingent upon the occurrence of the operant response)

counter conditioning (conditioning in which a second incompatible response is conditioned to an already conditioned stimulus)

Derivation:

condition (establish a conditioned response)

 Context examples 

The use of behavioral conditioning, counseling, and/or education to prevent or treat disease.

(Behavioral, Psychological or Informational Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)

Tawakol says it’s possible that reducing stress levels, through drugs or conditioning, might lower the risk of heart disease, something he’s interested in finding out.

(Biological Link Found Between Stress, Heart Disease, VOA)

The use of operant conditioning, including rewards and punishments, in helping a person create an atmosphere where he or she does not contribute to painful stimuli.

(Behavioral Intervention, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers used this approach to label memory cells during a fear-conditioning event that involved a mild electric shock to the mouse and then used light to artificially reactivate memories at different times.

(New Study Challenges Assumptions about How Memories Are Made, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In this state Frank Churchill had found her, she trembling and conditioning, they loud and insolent.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

It is a general measure of the relative conditioning of the heart and respiratory system.

(Cardiorespiratory Fitness, NCI Thesaurus)

A conditioning regimen may include chemotherapy, monoclonal antibody therapy, and radiation to the entire body.

(Conditioning regimen, NCI Dictionary)

Neatsfoot oil is used primarily as a conditioning, softening, and preservative agent for leather.

(Neatsfoot Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

During step 1, the conditioning regimen (irradiation and/or chemotherapy) leads to damage, activation of host tissues and induction of inflammatory cytokines [tumour necrosis factor (TNF-alpha) and interleukin (IL-1)] secretion.

(Graft-Versus-Host Disease Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

A subdiscipline of psychiatry that is concerned with the study of conditioning, learning, perception, motivation, emotion, language, and thinking; also used in relation to subject-matter areas in which experimental methods are emphasized.

(Experimental Psychiatry, NCI Thesaurus)