Associations to the word «Conditioning»

Wiktionary

CONDITIONING, noun. The process of modifying a person or animal's behaviour.
CONDITIONING, noun. Any preparation or training, especially athletic training of the body.
CONDITIONING, noun. The storage of a material specimen under specified temperature, humidity for a specified time prior to testing.
CONDITIONING, verb. Present participle of condition

Dictionary definition

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

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats