conditioned reflex
collocation in Englishmeaningsofconditionandreflex
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condition
noun
uk/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/us/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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reflex
noun
uk/ˈriː.fleks/us/ˈriː.fleks/
a physical reaction to something that you ...
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(Definition ofconditionandreflexfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The latter is a conditional orconditionedreflex; it is individually acquired and variable, a response to signals of forthcoming stimuli, like all learned behavior.
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An invitation to some kind of participatory dynamic, not aconditionedreflex, appears to be part of the plan, at least in this account.
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Dworkin (1993), for example, argued that "theconditionedreflexcan be a powerful mechanism for eliminating intrinsic lags" (p. 48) and augmenting the effectiveness of a physiological feedback loop.
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Perception and theconditionedreflex.
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He had come to learn this concept ofconditionedreflexwhen examining the rates of salivations among dogs.
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In theconditionedreflex, he has seen the essence of hypnosis.
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In theconditionedreflex, he has found what he saw as the essence of hypnosis.
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This action was aconditionedreflexbased on past training experience.
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The chaining of conditioned reflexes was a major sore point.
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Conditioned reflexes and neuron organization.
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Pavlov ignored that overwhelmingly obvious pattern in his simplistic division of all behavior at all evolutionary levels into two categories, unconditioned and conditioned reflexes.
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We have little doubt that this, and the work which has been done on conditioned reflexes and the like, might help to throw light on human behaviour.
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He remained concerned that humanity's conditioned reflexes were not keeping pace with its engineering potential, emphasizing the touch and go nature of our current predicament.
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On a method of investigating conditioned reflexes in animals.
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He discovered a new class of reflexes, conditioned reflexes.
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Unlike conditioned reflexes, the unconditioned reflexes are mostly stable.
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As described above, the conditioned reflexes are not only unstable but can be modified and extinguished.
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These stages must be under conscious control by the singer until they become conditioned reflexes.
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In particular, they failed to pursue research in several important fields, for example cortical localization of functions and fixation of inherited conditioned reflexes in the next generation.
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A second initiative he organized in the 1940s was a meeting about physiological mechanisms underlying the phenomena of conditioned reflexes and hypnosis as related to the problem of cerebral inhibition.
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