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instrumental conditioning

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noun

Psychology.
  1. conditioning.


Etymology

Origin of instrumental conditioning

First recorded in 1935–40

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We cannot expect an exception for the instrumental conditioning of autonomic functions.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas

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