conditioning

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: con=di=tion=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

conditioning, n. 

 a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment. See conditioned response.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

conditioning

Pavlovian conditioning, absorption and regurgitation, acclimation, acclimatization, accommodation, accustoming, adaptation, adaption, addictive, adjustment, apprenticeship, automatic writing, automatism, basic training, behavior, blind impulse, brainwashing, breaking, breaking-in, breeding, case hardening, catechization, compulsiveness, conditioned response, cultivation, development, dictation, discipline, domestication, drill, drilling, echolalia, echopraxia, enablement, equipment, exercise, familiarization, fetching-up, fit, fitting, fostering, furnishing, grooming, habit-forming, habituating, habituation, hard, hardening, housebreaking, imbuement, implantation, impregnation, impression, improvement, impulse, in-service training, inculcation, indoctrination, infixation, infixion, infusion, inoculation, instillation, instillment, instinct, instinctiveness, instrumental conditioning, inurement, involuntariness, manual training, military training, naturalization, negative reinforcement, nurture, nurturing, on-the-job training, operant conditioning, orientation, physiologically addictive, positive reinforcement, practice, preparation, psychagogy, psychologically addictive, qualification, raising, readying, rearing, reeducation, reflex, reflex action, rehearsal, reindoctrination, reinforcement, reorientation, seasoning, sheer chemistry, sloyd, taming, training, tuning, unconditioned reflex, unwilledness, upbringing, vocational education, vocational training