Conditioning (Noun)
Meaning
A learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment.
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The rats learned to press the lever through classical conditioning, associating the sound of the lever with the delivery of food.
- Classical conditioning was first described by Ivan Pavlov, who observed that dogs could be trained to salivate in response to a bell ringing.
- The children were able to overcome their fear of dogs through gradual exposure and conditioning.
- The marketing team used behavioral conditioning to create an association between their product and feelings of happiness and relaxation.
- The researchers used operant conditioning to train the birds to perform a specific behavior in response to a reward.