Sentence examples for conditional reflex from inspiring English sources

It was a bad translation of the Russian uslovnyi, or "conditional," reflex.

When they drooled in response to a sight or sound that was associated with food by mere happenstance, a "conditional reflex" (to a "conditional stimulus") had been created.

Persis' first instinct is to let him have it, not because she is afraid, but from a conditional reflex, instructing her to give people what they want: children, her husband.

The elicitation of the conditional response by the conditional stimulus is termed a conditional reflex, the occurrence of which is reinforced by the presentation of the unconditional stimulus (food).

He spent most of the next three decades exploring the ways conditional reflexes could be created, refined, and extinguished.

Drawing upon the brain science of the day, Pavlov understood conditional reflexes to involve a connection between a point in the brain's subcortex, which supported instincts, and a point in its cortex, where associations were built.

Using a temperature signal to turn on ShuA expression may not be exactly what Pavlov had in mind when he described "conditional reflexes," but it surely rings a bell.

Conditioned reflex, I guess.

(The conditional is a condition.

Why make it conditional?

It is conditional.