learned response
Acquired behavioral pattern
A learned response is a behavior or reaction acquired through experience rather than instinct.
In psychology, it describes responses developed through conditioning—Pavlov's dogs salivating at a bell, or flinching when someone raises their hand.
The term extends to any automatic reaction shaped by past experience: Her defensiveness was a learned response to years of criticism.
- conditionedTaught automatic responses
- PavlovConditioning reflex discoverer
- Pavlov's dogClassically conditioned subject
- stimulusWhat prompts a reaction
- habitSettled regular tendency
ringing bell · trained · automatic · behavior · bell · salivation · dog · association · trigger · cue · reinforcement · muscle memory · muscle twitch · ingrained · second nature · programmed · hard wired · reaction
- Conditioningconditioning, classical conditioning, operant, reinforcement, stimulus
- reflexesreflex, reflexes, reflex action, quick reflexes, startle reflex
- mental associationfree association, word association, mental association, mental link, connection
- autopilotautopilot, autothrottle, flight director, autoland, pitch control
learned responseinstinct
Innate behavioral tendency
natural instinct · instinctive behavior · genetic predisposition · inherited trait · fixed action pattern
learned responsereflex
Involuntary stimulus response
automatic reflex · knee-jerk reaction · involuntary response · spontaneous reaction · gut reaction
learned responseinstinct
Innate behavioral tendency
reflex · natural instinct · genetic predisposition · biological imperative · fixed action pattern
learn, learned, learner, learners, learning, learnings, learns, unlearned, relearn