Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun classical_conditioning

1 sense of classical conditioning

Sense 1
classical conditioning -- (conditioning that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that evokes a reflex; the stimulus that evokes the reflex is given whether or not the conditioned response occurs until eventually the neutral stimulus comes to evoke the reflex)
       => conditioning -- (a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment)