conditioning /con·di·tion·ing/ (-ing)
1. learning in which a stimulus initially incapable of evoking a certain response becomes able to do so by repeated pairing with another stimulus that does evoke the response.
2. in physical medicine, improvement of the physical state with a program of exercise.
aversive conditioning learning in which punishment or other unpleasant stimulation is used to reduce the frequency of an undesirable response.
instrumental conditioning , operant conditioning learning in which the frequency of a particular voluntary response is altered by the application of positive or negative consequences.
pavlovian conditioning conditioning (1).
Pav·lo·vi·an conditioning (p v-l  v - n, -lô-)n. A process of behavior modification by which a subject comes to respond in a desired manner to a previously neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly presented along with an unconditioned stimulus that elicits the desired response. |
Pavlovian conditioning
see classical conditioning.
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