preconditioning
Advance mental preparation
Preconditioning is preparation that shapes a later response.
In psychology, it refers to prior exposure that influences how someone reacts to subsequent stimuli.
In medicine, it describes protective treatments given before a stressful procedure: ischemic preconditioning before surgery.
More broadly, any advance conditioning that readies something for what follows: The soil needs preconditioning before planting.
What prompts a reaction
- responseAnswer to stimulus
- PavlovConditioning reflex discoverer
- classicalOf ancient Greece/Rome
- associativeConnecting by relationship
behaviorism · reinforcement · extinction · habituation · acquisition · generalization · discrimination · conditioned
Making ready beforehand
- groundworkFoundational preparation for something
- setupHow something is arranged
- arrangementOrdered configuration or agreement
- planningArranging for future events
readiness · staging · establishing · framework · preliminary · preparatory · baseline · foundational
Innate tendency toward something
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
- framingStructural or contextual shaping
influence · suggestibility · priming · presupposition · mindset · preconception · predetermination · susceptibility
Adjusting to new conditions
- acclimationAdjusting to new conditions
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- habituationDiminished reaction over time
- desensitizationReduced response over time
sensitization · tolerance · ischemic · cardiac · hypoxic · stress · exercise · thermal
Involving repeated cycles
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
- matrixOrdered numerical arrangement
- solverOne who finds solutions
- conjugateModify verbs grammatically
gradient · numerical · algorithm · linear · sparse · computational · spectral · eigenvalue
stimulus
What prompts a reaction
associative · behaviorism · reinforcement · extinction · habituation · acquisition · generalization · discrimination · conditioned · desensitization
priming
Making ready beforehand
- groundworkFoundational preparation for something
- setupHow something is arranged
- arrangementOrdered configuration or agreement
planning · readiness · staging · establishing · framework · preliminary · preparatory · baseline · foundational · prerequisite
predisposition
Innate tendency toward something
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- assumptionUnverified belief accepted as true
- expectationBelief about future outcomes
framing · influence · suggestibility · priming · presupposition · mindset · preconception · predetermination · susceptibility · receptivity
acclimatization
Adjusting to new conditions
- acclimationAdjusting to new conditions
- adaptationFitting to new conditions
- habituationDiminished reaction over time
desensitization · sensitization · tolerance · ischemic · cardiac · hypoxic · stress · exercise · thermal · altitude
iterative
Involving repeated cycles
- convergenceProcess of approaching sameness
- matrixOrdered numerical arrangement
- solverOne who finds solutions
conjugate · gradient · numerical · algorithm · linear · sparse · computational · spectral · eigenvalue · acceleration
- hormesisdose, stressor, cold exposure, heat stress, caloric restriction
- heart healthheart disease, heart-healthy diet, heart attack, cardiologist, heart failure
- linear algebramatrix, linear equation, vectors, linear function, matrices
- cell protectionantioxidants, glutathione, chaperones, detoxification, DNA repair
preconditioningspontaneous reaction
Unpremeditated immediate response
immediate reaction · cold start · knee-jerk reaction · improvisation
preconditioninginstinct
Innate behavioral tendency
reflex · spontaneity · naïveté · inexperience
preconditioningdeconditioning
Loss of conditioned response
deprogramming · natural state · desensitization · unlearning · blank slate
condition, conditions, conditioning, conditional, unconditional, conditioner, recondition, precondition, unconditioned