Glossary C

Glossary C

- Conditioned emotional response (CER) : Conditioned emotional response (CER ) refers to an emotional response that has been linked to a previously non-emotional stimulus by classical conditioning.

Conditioned fear reactions refer to acquired associations between an internal or external cue and feelings of intense anxiety.

Conditioned punisher refers to a punisher that loses its effectiveness through unpaired presentations.

Conditioned Reflex refers to non-voluntary response to a stimulus, expressed through behavior or physiologic alteration, similar to previous responses obtained by repetition of the stimulus

Conditioned reinforcer refers to a reinforcer that loses its effectiveness permanently through unpaired presentations. An unpaired presentation is the presentation of the event without its being associated with any other reinforcers. xConditioned reinforcers are generally assumed by Behavior analysts as that are caused by a previously non-reinforcing event being frequently paired with a reinforcing event. This pairing may occur when the non-reinforcing event serves as a discriminative stimulus.

Conditioned response refers to an acquired response to a stimulus that was previously neutral.

- Conditioned response (CR) : Conditioned response refers to an acquired response to a stimulus that was previously neutral; a response that, through repeated pairings, is evoked by a formerly neutral stimulus; a learned response elicited by a conditioned stimulus.

Conditioned stimulus refers to a previously neutral stimulus that, after repeated pairings with the unconditioned stimulus, elicits a conditioned response.