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Origin of classical conditioning

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby classical conditioning

classical, classical antiquity, Classical Armenian, Classical Chinese, classical college, classical conditioning, classical economics, Classical Greek, Classical Latin, classical mechanics, classical music

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How to use classical conditioning in a sentence

Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze|Lizzie Crocker|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
For Kirke it was being paid to pretend to play the oboe that heightened her affair with classical music.
‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Inside Amazon’s Brave New World of Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music|Kevin Fallon|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Since filming the show, however, her relationship with classical music has obviously changed.
‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Inside Amazon’s Brave New World of Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music|Kevin Fallon|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
So she was an aficionado of classical music, for soundtracks or otherwise?
‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Inside Amazon’s Brave New World of Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music|Kevin Fallon|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And it goes beyond getting my teeth drilled at the dentist office—my dentist really likes classical music.
‘Mozart in the Jungle’: Inside Amazon’s Brave New World of Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music|Kevin Fallon|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This was a vast building of classical design, resembling a Grecian temple.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Hence the danger—ever to be avoided—of using classical allusions in teaching the average student.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
The place he put it in was—er—a little below golf and a little above classical concerts.
First Plays|A. A. Milne
Besides his work for Zarembas classes, Tchaikovsky devoted many hours to the study of the classical composers.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
The General Assembly encouraged the establishment of classical schools and academies via revenue secured from lotteries.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey

British Dictionary definitions for classical conditioning

classical conditioning

noun

psychol the alteration in responding that occurs when two stimuli are regularly paired in close succession: the response originally given to the second stimulus comes to be given to the firstSee also conditioned response

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Scientific definitions for classical conditioning

classical conditioning

[ klăs′ĭ-kəl ]

A process of behavior modification in which a subject learns to respond in a desired manner such that a neutral stimulus (the conditioned stimulus) is repeatedly presented in association with a stimulus (the unconditioned stimulus) that elicits a natural response (the unconditioned response) until the neutral stimulus alone elicits the same response (now called the conditioned response). For example, in Pavlov's experiments, food is the unconditioned stimulus that produces salivation, a reflex or unconditioned response. The bell is the conditioned stimulus, which eventually produces salivation in the absence of food. This salivation is the conditioned response.

classical conditioning

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