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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1861 1. the process of training to become physically fit by a regimen of exercise, diet, and rest; also the resulting state of physical fitness 2. a simple form of learning involving the formation, strengthening, or weakening of an association between a stimulus and a response

Britannica Concise

Process in which the frequency or predictability of a behavioral response is increased through reinforcement (i.e., a stimulus or a reward for the desired response). Classical, or respondent, conditioning, involving stimulus substitution, is based on the work of I. Pavlov, who conditioned dogs by ringing a bell each time the aroma of food was presented. Eventually the dogs salivated when the bell rang, even if no food odor was present; salivation was thus the conditioned response. In instrumental, or operant, conditioning, a spontaneous (operant) behavior is either rewarded (reinforced) or punished. When rewarded, a behavior increases in frequency; when punished, it decreases. Operant conditioning was studied in detail by B. F. Skinner.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Condition Con*di"tion, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Conditioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Conditioning.] 1. To make terms; to stipulate. Pay me back my credit, And I'll condition with ye. --Beau. & Fl. 2. (Metaph.) To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible. To think of a thing is to condition. --Sir W. Hamilton.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see condition

Moby Thesaurus

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