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signalization Psychol.|sɪgnəlaɪˈzeɪʃən| [f. signalize v. 4 + -ation.] A term derived from the work of I. P. Pavlov (1849–1936) for the process whereby a signal comes to elicit the same response as the original stimulus.
1927G. V. Anrep tr. Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes ii. 22 The underlying principle of this activity is signalization. The sound of the metronome is the signal for food, and the animal reacts to the signal in the same way as if it were food. 1969in K. H. Pribram Memory Mechanisms 137 The conditioned reflex..enables the animal to adjust itself to the essential factors of the external and internal world on the basis of the principle of signalization. |