A learned response to a stimulus.
Conditioned response.
An automatic reaction by a person to a stimulus, or an expected reaction to a stimulus which comes from past experience.
Reflex developed by training with a specific repeated stimulus, as in Pavlov’s experiment, in which a dog salivates at the sound of a bell after a period in which each feeding is preceded by the ringing of a bell.
A reflex in which the response occurs not to the sensory stimulus that normally causes it but to a separate stimulus, which has been learned to be associated with it. In Pavlov’s classic experiments, dogs learned to associate the sound of a bell with feeding time and would salivate at the bell’s sound whether food was then presented to them or not.
The development of a specific response by an individual to a specific stimulus. The best known conditioned reflex is the one described by Ivan Pavlov, in which dogs that became accustomed to being fed when a bell was sounded salivated on hearing the bell, even if no food was given. The conditioned reflex is an important part of behavioural theory.
A reflex acquired as a result of training in which the cerebral cortex plays an essential part. Conditioned reflexes are not inborn or inherited; rather, they are learned.
An artificially triggered reflex action is known as a conditioned reflex. For instance, when a bell rings simultaneously with giving food to a dog every time, the dog starts to associate the bell’s sound with food. As the dog typically salivates in anticipation of food, it eventually begins to salivate solely in response to the sound of the bell.
A learned reflex developed through repeated training, exemplified by Pavlov’s famous experiment with dogs. In this experiment, the dogs began to salivate in response to the sound of a bell, which had been associated with food over time, even without the presence of actual food.