classical conditioning
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classical conditioning (uncountable)
- (psychology) A learning process in which a previously neutral stimulus (such as a bell) is paired with a potent stimulus (such as food in the case of a dog), so that the neutral stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response (salivation) similar to the one elicited by the potent stimulus.
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learning process
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- classical conditioning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia