conditioned reflex
Learned automatic reaction
A conditioned reflex is an automatic response learned through repeated association—Pavlov's dogs salivating at a bell that had preceded food.
The term extends beyond laboratory psychology: Hearing my phone buzz triggers a conditioned reflex to check it.
Distinguished from innate reflexes like blinking, conditioned reflexes are acquired through experience.
- stimulusWhat prompts a reaction
- soundAudible wave phenomenon
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- responseAnswer to stimulus
- counterconditioningReplacing conditioned response therapeutically
Ivan Pavlov · salivation · Pavlovian response · reinforcement · exposure therapy · bell · ring a bell · automatic response · knee jerk · startle · learned behavior · eye · stimulus-response · dogs · generalization · discrimination · desensitization · negative reinforcement
- learned behaviorshabit, routine, skill, trained response, driving
- Conditioningoperant, reinforcement, stimulus, Pavlov, Skinner
- learned responsessalivation, aversion, avoidance, fear response, startle response
- Pavlov's Dogsalivation, drooling
conditioned reflexinstinct
Innate behavioral tendency
instinctive behavior · fixed action pattern · genetic predisposition · biological imperative
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