Conditioning (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun Psychology.
  1. a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.
  2. a process in which a stimulus that was previously neutral, as the sound of a bell, comes to evoke a particular response, as salivation, by being repeatedly paired with another stimulus that normally evokes the response, as the taste of food.
noun
  1. the learning process by which the behaviour of an organism becomes dependent on an event occurring in its environment
adjective
  1. (of a shampoo, cosmetic, etc) intended to improve the condition of something
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