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Pavlovian conditioning

 
Dictionary: Pavlovian conditioning

n.
Classical conditioning.

[After Ivan Petrovich PAVLOV.]


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(păv-lō'vē-ən, -lô'-)
n.

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.

 
 

 

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