| DEC | decrease; deoxycholate citrate; diagnostic episode cluster; diethylcarbamazine; dynamic environmenta... |
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| HVAC | heating, ventilating, and air conditioning |
| BST | bacteriuria screening test; blood serologic test; brief stimulus therapy |
| CS | calf serum; campomelic syndrome; carcinoid syndrome; cardiogenic shock; caries-susceptible; carotid ... |
| CSD | carotid sinus denervation; cat scratch disease; combined system disease; conditionally streptomycin ... |
| higher order conditioning | The use of a previously conditioned stimulus to condition further responses, in much the same way unconditioned stimuli are used. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| second-order conditioning | The use of a previously successfully conditioned stimulus as the unconditioned stimulus for further conditioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| skinnerian conditioning | A type of conditioning developed by Skinner in which an experimenter waits for the target response (head scratching) to be conditioned to occur (emitted) spontaneously, immediately after which the organism is given a reinforcer reward; after this procedure is repeated many times, the frequency of emission of the targeted response will have significantly increased over its pre-experiment base rate. See: schedules of reinforcement. Synonym: skinnerian conditioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| instrumental conditioning | Conditioning in which the response is a prerequisite to achieving some goal; often used as a synonym for operant conditioning, but some psychologists make distinctions in the usages of these two terms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| operant conditioning | A type of conditioning developed by Skinner in which an experimenter waits for the target response (head scratching) to be conditioned to occur (emitted) spontaneously, immediately after which the organism is given a reinforcer reward; after this procedure is repeated many times, the frequency of emission of the targeted response will have significantly increased over its pre-experiment base rate. See: schedules of reinforcement. Synonym: skinnerian conditioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| tissue conditioning (dental) | The use of a treatment material (tissue conditioner) to re-establish tone and health to irritated oral soft tissue, usually applied to the edentulous alveolar ridge. (12 Dec 1998) |
| trace conditioning | Conditioning when there is no temporal overlap between the conditioning stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| transplantation conditioning | Preparative treatment of transplant recipient with various conditioning regimens including radiation, immune sera, chemotherapy, and/or immunosuppressive agents, prior to transplantation. Transplantation conditioning is very common before bone marrow transplantation. (12 Dec 1998) |
| escape conditioning | The technique whereby an organism learns to terminate unpleasant or punishing stimuli by making the appropriate new response which stops the delivery of such stimuli. Compare: avoidance conditioning. Synonym: escape training. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adequate stimulus | A stimulus to which a particular receptor responds effectively and that gives rise to a characteristic sensation; e.g., light and sound waves that stimulate, respectively, visual and auditory receptors. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aversive stimulus | <psychology> A noxious stimulus such as an electric shock used in aversive training or conditioning. See: aversive training. (05 Mar 2000) |
| maximal stimulus | A stimulus strong enough to evoke a maximal response. (05 Mar 2000) |
| conditioned stimulus | A stimulus applied to one of the sense organs (e.g., receptors of vision, hearing, touch) which are an essential and integral part of the neural mechanism underlying a conditioned reflex. See: classical conditioning, higher order conditioning. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterologous stimulus | A stimulus that acts upon any part of the sensory apparatus or nerve tract. (05 Mar 2000) |
| heterotopic stimulus | Any electrical activation from an abnormal locus. (05 Mar 2000) |