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Pavlovian conditioning

 
American Heritage Dictionary:

Pavlovian conditioning


n.
Classical conditioning.

[After Ivan Petrovich PAVLOV.]


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(păv-lō'vē-ən, -lô'-)
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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.

Oxford Dictionary of Biochemistry:

Pavlovian conditioning

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the modification of behaviour, whereby a previously neutral stimulus becomes associated with an already existing reflex, so that it will, by itself, evoke a response. This new reflex is said to be conditional. After Ivan P. Pavlov (1849 — 1936), Russian physiologist and experimental psychologist, who described the effect experiments on dogs. He showed that reflex responses, like salivation, became conditional upon specific previous experiences of the animal, such as light or a tone (but probably not a bell).

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