psychological conditioning
Learned response training
Psychological conditioning is the process of training behavioral or emotional responses through repeated association or reinforcement.
In classical conditioning, a neutral stimulus becomes linked to a natural response—Pavlov's dogs salivating at a bell.
In operant conditioning, behaviors are shaped through rewards and punishments.
The term often carries sinister overtones, suggesting manipulation: years of psychological conditioning made her unable to trust anyone.
- Pavlov's dogClassically conditioned subject
- shockViolent sudden disturbance
- behaviorismPsychology studying observable conduct
- behavioral therapyPsychotherapy targeting observable actions
- positive reinforcementStrengthening behavior through rewards
negative reinforcement · reinforcement · reward · habit formation · flinch · neuroplasticity · extinction · bell · click · freeze · shaping · cage · sensitization · taste · habituation · addiction treatment · fear response · fight or flight
psychological conditioninginstinct
Innate behavioral tendency
biological imperative · natural instinct · genetic predisposition · inherited trait · reflex
psychological conditioningcritical thinking
Objective evaluation of information
psychological conditioningfree will
Autonomous choice capacity
deconditioning · deprogramming · self-determination · independent thought · spontaneity
psychological, conditioning, psychologically, psychology, psychologist, psyche, condition, conditions, conditioned