Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Conditioning"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Condition \Con*di"tion\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Conditioned}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Conditioning}.]
1. To make terms; to stipulate.
Pay me back my credit, And I'll condition with ye.
--Beau. & Fl.
2. (Metaph.) To impose upon an object those relations or
conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged
to be impossible.
To think of a thing is to condition. --Sir W.
Hamilton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
conditioning
n : a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes
dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its
environment
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