What is "conditioned responses"

Usage examples of "conditioned responses".

Speaking and reading become complex conditioned responses, as does typing or whittling or any of a myriad other mechanical skills.

We ended up agreeing that probably there were no instincts, only conditioned responses to certain stimuli.

The conditioned responses, when I reached around in the bathroom for the light cord.

The Thorans believe in Great Ghu the Grandfather God the same way I believe in environment-conditioned responses.

And the third is the ultra-paradoxical phase, in which conditioned responses and behavior patterns turn from positive to negative or from negative to positive.

Then again, Dream Park's mad psychiatrist might be ghoulish enough to do it deliberately, studying Griffin's conditioned responses.

He remembered the changing, not so long ago, from female to male, and he remembered all of it in pictures, not in mere instinctual patterns and conditioned responses.

It is the pride of discovering that one is not merely a bundle of reflexes and conditioned responses.