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The repeated pairing of a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus results in a conditioned stimulus. The response evoked by the conditioned stimulus is the conditioned response.
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Conditioned responses, a component of classical conditioning (also referred to as respondent, or Pavlovian conditioning), are behaviors that, while naturally elicited by an unconditioned stimulus, are not elicited by a neutral stimulus. Instead, a conditioned response is learned through the repeated pairing of a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus. Through repeated pairings, the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus, now evoking the response that was previously only demonstrated following presentation of the unconditioned stimulus. The response to the conditioned stimulus is now termed the conditioned response. The conditioned response that is evoked by the conditioned stimulus is the same as the unconditioned response (Cooper et...
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Radley, K.C., McCargo, M. (2017). Conditioned Response. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_970-1
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