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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
conditioning
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
air conditioning
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■ ADJECTIVE
classical
▪ These are classical and operant conditioning.
▪ Indeed, Pavlov believed that the study of classical conditioning was the only way to study the functions of the cerebral cortex.
▪ In type two, specific behaviours are linked with specific events as in classical and operant conditioning.
▪ It also gave us the belief, probably misguided, that there are two fundamental learning processes: classical and instrumental conditioning.
▪ The assumptions about classical conditioning that are implied by this notion must be rather different from those embodied in the standard model.
▪ Associative learning, which includes both classical and operant conditioning and emphasises mechanical connections or associations between events. 2.
operant
▪ There is an obvious analogy between operant conditioning and evolution by natural selection.
▪ The same holds true of any other strategy adopted as a result of operant conditioning.
▪ For operant conditioning to work, at least some stimuli must be reinforcing, and others aversive, without previous training.
▪ I have described the process of operant conditioning discovered by the behaviourists, but not the philosophy that guided them.
▪ Language teachers, impressed by the apparent authority of science, follow suit and try to teach by means of operant conditioning.
▪ These are classical and operant conditioning.
▪ These are examples of Operant conditioning and show the power of parents in shaping the personality of the child.
▪ In type two, specific behaviours are linked with specific events as in classical and operant conditioning.
■ NOUN
air
▪ The air conditioning was not yet in place.
▪ Ask for the facts on electric air conditioning.
▪ They incorporated all the Mark 3 features of air conditioning, insulation and good riding.
▪ In all stores adequate ventilation should be provided as an aid to temperature control with mechanical air conditioning if needed.
▪ These monitor and diagnose any problems occurring in a particular computer system, drops in temperature and changes in air conditioning levels.
▪ However, air conditioning is standard and there is electric adjustment for mirrors, windows and seats.
▪ Once in the boatyard Ellen ran ahead of me, evidently eager to reach Wavebreaker's air conditioning.
▪ Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company, and they told him the air conditioning wasn't working.
system
▪ The products will be used in refrigeration systems in the food industry and in large air conditioning systems.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Most adults are unaware of the social conditioning they have been subject to since childhood.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ask for the facts on electric air conditioning.
▪ B.F. Skinner emphasised that during instrumental conditioning an organism learns a response by operating on its environment.
▪ But there are other forms of conditioning, too.
▪ It is used in refrigeration, air conditioning, aerosols and foams.
▪ Odd litters can be born at any time of the year, weather controlling the conditioning of the does.
▪ Operant conditioning involves contiguity, in that the reinforcing event follows closely the production of a response.
▪ These causes are not necessarily genetic, but may include environmental factors such as upbringing in the family, social conditioning and so on.
▪ They incorporated all the Mark 3 features of air conditioning, insulation and good riding.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
conditioning

conditioning \conditioning\ n. a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment. See conditioned response.

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Wiktionary
conditioning

n. 1 The process of modifying a person or animal's behaviour. 2 Any preparation or training, especially athletic training of the body. vb. (present participle of condition English)

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WordNet
conditioning

n. a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment

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Wikipedia
Conditioning

Conditioning may refer to:

Conditioning (probability)

Beliefs depend on the available information. This idea is formalized in probability theory by conditioning. Conditional probabilities, conditional expectations and conditional distributions are treated on three levels: discrete probabilities, probability density functions, and measure theory. Conditioning leads to a non-random result if the condition is completely specified; otherwise, if the condition is left random, the result of conditioning is also random.

This article concentrates on interrelations between various kinds of conditioning, shown mostly by examples. For systematic treatment (and corresponding literature) see more specialized articles mentioned below.

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Usage examples of "conditioning".

Each in my world, it seemed, carried about with him a bubble of space, a perimeter, a wall, an invisible shield, an unconsciously acculturated, socially sanctioned remoteness, a barrier decreed by convention and conditioning.

When Antinous was convinced that the conditioning was beginning to have the desired effect, he advanced to the next stage: actual training in pancration.

They rely on vows of virginity, and intensive antisexual conditioning, to keep the channels totally free.

The conditioning oriented behaviorist simply directs you to break the connection between the situation and the fear response.

There, desperately seeking air conditioning, he saw a lot of Bollywood films.

The interactive Zone Training programs automatically adjust resistance to keep you in your target heart-rate zone for optimal fat-burning or cardiovascular conditioning.

Taken off to the Imperial military planet of Carida, he had suffered weeks of torture and conditioning as xenosurgeons removed portions of his brain and replaced them with vat-grown organic circuits that allowed Furgan to use Terpfen as a perfectly disguised puppet.

Changing our reaction to the environment is another self-help approach based on classical conditioning methods.

Thus, as with classical conditioning, the setting exercises great control over our operant behavior.

By disparagement, by starvation, by repressions, forced direction, and the stunning hammerblows of conditioning, the free, roving mind is being pursued, roped, blunted, drugged.

There were long rows of palletized material, containing such things as industrial-size drill presses and lathes, a clutch of old refrigerators, a fire-fighting vehicle from a military airfield, skip boxes of scrap metal, industrial air conditioning units, several rusty-looking water heaters, and mounds of used truck tires.

Confections are commonly used by masters as rewards in the training and conditioning of their girls.

Ali-7 model had been more forthcoming than Ali-7 could bring himself to be, because Remson could filter out the cultural restraints of Medinan conditioning.

Like the microcircuitry that operated automatic doors and the faint, characteristic hum of air conditioning, it hovered momentarily within touching distance of his mind, then retreated again into the cloudy memory of white pain.

They tried metapsychic deep-redact and deprivation conditioning and multiphase electroshock and narcotherapy and old-time religion.