conditioning
Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
Also called classical conditioning, Pavlovian conditioning, respondent conditioning. a process in which a stimulus that was previously neutral, as the sound of a bell, comes to evoke a particular response, as salivation, by being repeatedly paired with another stimulus that normally evokes the response, as the taste of food.
Origin of conditioning
1Other words from conditioning
- self-con·di·tion·ing, adjective
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How to use conditioning in a sentence
Observers have pinned the blame on everything from age to nerves to poor conditioning.
How Serena Williams Could Finally Break The Grand Slam Record | Amy Lundy | February 10, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightThe injury sapped his conditioning, and on those days that he did suit up, he looked sluggish.
Joel Embiid Changed His Offseason Conditioning. Now He’s Playing Like An MVP. | Yaron Weitzman | February 9, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightGarrett Reid was 29 and was at the time assisting the Eagles’ strength and conditioning coach.
Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid involved in car accident that injured two children | Mark Maske | February 8, 2021 | Washington PostAlthough the postponement won’t bring the Wizards back to full strength, it will give the healthy players extra time to ramp up their conditioning and prepare.
Wizards return to practice with just eight eligible players — and have another game postponed | Ava Wallace | January 21, 2021 | Washington PostThree members of the coaching staff also tested positive, Massaro says, as did five members of the team’s strength and conditioning unit.
A college football coach’s season at war with the coronavirus — and his own school | Kent Babb | January 19, 2021 | Washington Post
There are fans, but Hetflaisz never once saw an air-conditioning unit—and temperatures get up to 100 degrees.
I had to throw out all of my American conditioning toward the workplace.
At 4:00 p.m. on a hot summer day, lots of people turn on their air conditioning at the same time.
Conway refers to the other important factors as the “three ‘A’s”: air conditioning, assimilation, and airfare.
The bus had no air-conditioning and was filled with Arab families.
There was a faint hum that built up all over the ship as the air conditioning came on at the same time.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettFrankly, if it would do any good, I might even consider breaking one or two of the laws, and the devil with my conditioning.
They Also Serve | Donald E. WestlakePhysical conditioning, systems of exercise, experimentation in chemotherapy are still being undertaken.
This Crowded Earth | Robert BlochAfter ten years of study, our conditioning was to lift slowly, so that we would realize who and what we were.
Assignment's End | Roger DeeI said our air-conditioning system goes haywire and that we were ripping out a thousand old boilers and coolers.
Satan and the Comrades | Ralph Bennitt
British Dictionary definitions for conditioning
/ (kənˈdɪʃənɪŋ) /
psychol the learning process by which the behaviour of an organism becomes dependent on an event occurring in its environment: See also classical conditioning, instrumental learning
(of a shampoo, cosmetic, etc) intended to improve the condition of something: a conditioning rinse
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Scientific definitions for conditioning
[ kən-dĭsh′ə-nĭng ]
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