conditioned stimulus

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condition
noun
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/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/us
/kənˈdɪʃ.ən/
the particular state that something or someone ...
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stimulus
noun[C]
uk
/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/us
/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/
something that causes growth ...
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(Definition ofconditionandstimulusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Additionally, the capsule a patient receives is pharmacologically inert, but hardly inert with respect to its symbolic value and its power as aconditionedstimulus.
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Theconditionedstimuluscan also be provided by a mutant male.
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That is, only some children and adults show a rise in heart rate to aconditionedstimulusfor danger or to an unfamiliar event.
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Theconditionedstimuluswas presented for 4 s, followed by a 6-s rest period.
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Pavlov also - no surprise - saw how aconditionedstimulusmight adaptively signal the appropriate mixture for a given substance based on prior experience.
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In the study with the blue gourami, for example, theconditionedstimuluswas the presentation of a red light, and the unconditioned stimulus was visual access to a female.
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For example, fear is an emotional state that might be produced by a sound (theconditionedstimulus) that has previously been associated with an electrical shock (the primary reinforcer).
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It seems a mistake to conclude that rats who experienced intense shock during training were not in a state of fear when theconditionedstimulusappeared.
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Theconditionedstimulusis presented with the unconditioned stimulus.
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In this experiment, the electrophysiological expression of the long-term memory trace was aconditionedstimulusinduced feeding response.
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This is especially advantageous for when trying to disassociateconditionedstimulusand responses.
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The highly reproducible results revealed that conditioned rats exposed to theconditionedstimuluswere indeed immuno suppressed.
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The ability of theconditionedstimuluswas weakened but it was not eliminated.
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In classical conditioning, when used together with an unconditioned stimulus, the neutral stimulus becomes aconditionedstimulus.
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The result of thisconditionedstimulusis to provoke the unconditioned response, fear.
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During extinction, the subject has been unconditioned as to not show the conditioned response when presented by the pairedconditionedstimulus.
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The response to theconditionedstimulusis termed a "conditioned response".
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Recovery takes place even though there has not been any additional associations between theconditionedstimulusand the unconditioned stimulus.
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Following conditioning, the response occurs both to the unconditioned stimulus and to the other, unrelated stimulus (now referred to as theconditionedstimulus).
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His emphasis on the "indifference" of conditioned stimuli exposed his theory to refutation of a different, but no less serious, sort.
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