conditioned responses
Trained automatic behaviors
Conditioned responses are automatic reactions that develop through repeated association between a stimulus and an outcome.
The term comes from behavioral psychology—Pavlov's dogs salivating at a bell that preceded food.
The concept extends beyond laboratories: flinching at a raised hand, craving coffee at certain times, or feeling anxious when a phone buzzes.
Years of criticism left her with conditioned responses to any feedback.
- reflexInvoluntary stimulus response
- knee jerkInvoluntary leg response
- bellHollow resonating instrument
- salivationMouth producing digestive fluid
- trainingDeveloping abilities through practice
ringing bell · stimulus · reaction · fight or flight · reinforcement · imprinting · habituation · ethology · learned behavior · desensitization · extinction · adaptive behavior · behavioral psychology · aversion therapy · behavior modification · animal cognition · survival instincts · muscle memory
- Unconsciousid, ego, superego, repression, dreams
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