conditional response
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Definition
Noun: An acquired response that is under the control of, or dependent on, the occurrence of a specific stimulus. It is a learned reaction that occurs only when a particular condition or signal is present.
Usage
A conditional response is a term primarily used in psychology and behavioral science. It describes a reaction that an organism learns to produce in anticipation of a specific event or trigger. This contrasts with an innate, automatic reflex.
Examples
- In Pavlov's famous experiment, the dog's salivation upon hearing a bell was a conditional response.
- Feeling anxious when entering a dentist's office can be a conditional response formed from prior experiences.
- The researcher measured the strength of the conditional response to the light signal.
Advanced Usage
- In Behavioral Therapy: Therapists work to extinguish maladaptive conditional responses, such as phobic reactions, by breaking the association between the stimulus and the response.
- "Conditioned response": This is a more common synonym and is often used interchangeably with "conditional response" in academic literature. The process of creating such a response is called .
Variants and Related Words
- Conditioned response (n): The most frequent synonym.
- Conditioned reflex (n): Often used when the learned response is a simple, automatic physiological reaction.
- CR (n): A common abbreviation in scientific writing.
- Unconditional response (n): The innate, unlearned reaction to a stimulus (e.g., salivation to food).
Synonyms
- Conditioned response
- Acquired reflex
- Learned response
Antonyms
- Unconditional response
- Unconditioned reflex
- Innate response
Noun
- an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus