WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024condi′tioned response′, [Psychol.]- Animal Behaviora response that becomes associated with a previously unrelated stimulus as a result of pairing the stimulus with another stimulus normally yielding the response. Also called condi′tioned re′flex.
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conditioned response n - a response that is transferred from the second to the first of a pair of stimuli. A well-known Pavlovian example is salivation by a dog when it hears a bell ring, because food has always been presented when the bell has been rung previously
Also called (esp formerly): conditioned reflex