a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment
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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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conditioning in which an operant response is brought under stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement contingent upon the…
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology, Learning memory.conditioning to avoid an aversive stimulus
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology, Learning memory.conditioning in which a second incompatible response is conditioned to an already conditioned stimulus; "counter conditioning lies beh…
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology, Learning memory.a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology, Learning memory.a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology, Learning memory.operant conditioning that pairs a response with a reinforcement in discrete trials; reinforcement occurs only after the response is gi…
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology, Learning memory.(psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology.(psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology.(psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology.(psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology.(psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology.(psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology.(psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology.an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology.an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology.an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology.an approach to psychology that emphasizes observable measurable behavior
Used in the same subject area: Behavioural psychology, Psychology.
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(neurophysiology) a nerve impulse resulting from a weak stimulus is just as strong as a nerve impulse resulting from a strong stimulus
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.any of a large variety of proteins normally present in the body or produced in response to an antigen which it neutralizes, thus produ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.one of the pairs of chemical bases joined by hydrogen bonds that connect the complementary strands of a DNA molecule or of an RNA mole…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in succession, as among the colored people of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.the electrical response of the central nervous system produced by an external stimulus; "he measured evoked potentials with an electro…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.(neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.(Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.A natural susceptibility, characteristic of all living organisms, tissues, and cells, to the influence of certain stimuli, response be…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.A class, or subclass, of arthropods, related to the hexapod insects, from which they differ in having the body made up of numerous sim…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of ho…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.A genus, including numerous species, of marine chaetopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennae, four p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.The quality or state of being neutral. See Neutral, a., 4.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.The act or process by which an acid and a base are combined in such proportions that the resulting compound is neutral. See Neutral, a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.a reinforcing stimulus that serves to increase the likelihood of the response that produces it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.a reinforcing stimulus that serves to increase the likelihood of the response that produces it
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: conditioning, pairs, neutral, stimulus, evokes.
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