conditioned reflex
Example Sentences
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As Alice and Edgar have at each other, with nasty recriminations that infect the initially conciliatory Kurt, they are clearly acting out a pattern so familiar it has become a conditioned reflex.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2019
Your conditioned reflex is that when you see someone of the same sex, you feel love.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2015
Pavlov is perhaps best known for introducing the idea of the conditioned reflex, although Todes notes that he never used that term.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 17, 2014
This enhanced secretion is a conditioned reflex, meaning it occurs only if you like or want a particular food.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Indifference to one’s neighbor and his troubles is a conditioned reflex in life in New York as it is in other big cities.
From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell
