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Conditioning   /kəndˈɪʃənɪŋ/   Listen
Conditioning

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


Condition

verb
(past & past part. conditioned; pres. part. conditioning)
1.
Establish a conditioned response.
2.
Develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control.  Synonyms: check, discipline, train.  "Is this dog trained?"
3.
Specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement.  Synonyms: qualify, specify, stipulate.  "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments"
4.
Put into a better state.
5.
Apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny.



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"Conditioning" Quotes from Famous Books



... ingression of blue into nature events may be roughly put into four classes which overlap and are not very clearly separated. These classes are (i) the percipient events, (ii) the situations, (iii) the active conditioning events, (iv) the passive conditioning events. To understand this classification of events in the general fact of the ingression of blue into nature, let us confine attention to one situation for one percipient event and to the consequent ...
— The Concept of Nature - The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 • Alfred North Whitehead
... himself along by the ladder rungs welded to one corner of the shaft. He reached a slightly wider section aft, which boasted entrances to two air locks, a spacesuit locker, a galley, and a head. He entered the last, noting the murmur of air-conditioning machinery on the other side ...
— Satellite System • Horace Brown Fyfe
... She was doing what was collecting. She was giving what was continuing. She was receiving what was gathering. She was hearing what was sounding. She was losing what was fading. She was saying which was enjoying and conditioning. She was accepting which was pleasing. She was resenting which was resisting. She was suffering which was accusing. She was worrying which was counting. She was reflecting which was grieving. She was being which was accepting. She was ...
— Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein - With Two Shorter Stories • Gertrude Stein
... mountain of votes. This, perhaps, was not a fair test of the public sentiment in the question presented, for the reason that the amendment contained a vicious clause, empowering the forthcoming legislature to alter the law in its discretion, but it is undoubtedly true that no amendment conditioning the suffrage upon education and property could pass the ordeal of a popular vote. The politicians, however, were not to be discouraged by this defeat, and accordingly they passed through the legislature the bill which called the recent convention ...
— The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 3, September, 1898 • Various
... "Natural aptitudes? I am surprised to hear you use such an expression. I thought you furnished your students with aptitudes through environmental conditioning." ...
— When I Grow Up • Richard E. Lowe


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