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conditioned response

conditioned response \conditioned response\ n. a behavioral response to a stimulus that has been acquired by experience or conditioning.

Syn: CER, conditioned emotion.

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conditioned response

n. a conditioned reflex

WordNet
conditioned response

n. an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus [syn: conditional reflex, conditioned reflex, acquired reflex, conditional reaction, conditioned reaction, conditional response]

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Conditioned response

Usage examples of "conditioned response".

McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned, whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other, untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour.

Why does the CR, conditioned response, mysteriously change to a physiological reaction totally opposite to the UCR, the unconditioned response to heroin?

The best explanation is biological: perhaps the body learns to prepare in advance for the anticipated shock of a drug injection by lowering the heart rate and making other adjustments which reverse the original conditioned response.

The thought of it, like a conditioned response, brought out the sweat.

Did he have some conditioned response to a phrase she'd used, or was the admission of his clone identity a releaser for more cooperation?

The habit of eating everything she could get at formal gatherings of this sort, common in Academe, was so deeply ingrained in her that it could be described as a conditioned response.