classical conditioning

English

Noun

classical conditioning (uncountable)

1. (psychology) A learning process in which a previously neutral stimulus (such as a bell) is paired with a potent stimulus (such as food in the case of a dog), so that the neutral stimulus comes to elicit a conditioned response (salivation) similar to the one elicited by the potent stimulus.

Synonyms

• Pavlovian conditioning

Coordinate terms

• operant conditioning

Translations

learning process

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 经典条件反射 (jīngdiǎn tiáojiàn fǎnshè), 巴甫洛夫条件反射 (Bāfǔluòfū tiáojiàn fǎnshè), 古典制約／古典制约 (gǔdiǎn zhìyuē)

• Finnish: klassinen ehdollistuminen
• French: conditionnement classique m, conditionnement pavlovien m
• German: klassische Konditionierung f
• Russian: условный рефлекс (uslovnyj refleks)
• Spanish: condicionamiento clásico m
• Turkish: klasik koşullanma

Further reading

• classical conditioning on Wikipedia.Wikipedia