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Definition of Conditional response
1. Noun. An acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus.
Generic synonyms: Learned Reaction, Learned Response
Specialized synonyms: Conditioned Avoidance, Conditioned Avoidance Response
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conditional Response
Literary usage of Conditional response
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"If a conditional response were made to a direct question, the stipulation was
void; so also, if made by letter or messenger. The relation of suretyship ..."
2. The Effects of the Egyptian Food Ration and Subsidy System on Income by Harold Alderman, Joachim Von Braun (1984)
"The conditional response equation produced negative coefficients for both ...
The time variable in the conditional response equation has less variance than ..."
3. The History of North America by Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe (1904)
"The Court of Plymouth acceded to the first, second, and fourth of the proposals,
and to the third made the conditional response that it would be agreed to, ..."
4. A popular commentary on the New Testament by Daniel Denison Whedon (1875)
"... a power to perform a miracle upon this perfectly hopeless lame-born, Look on
us—Requiring, at least, a slight conditional response from the lame-born. ..."
5. Learning a Living: First Results of the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Surveyby Statistics Canada by Statistics Canada (2005)
"... tendencies to respond in a certain way (more formally, each class is characterized
by its conditional response probabilities) to a set of questions. ..."