conditional reaction

1. 1.

   an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus

   Synonymsconditional reflexconditioned reflexacquired reflexconditioned reactionconditional responseconditioned response

   Broaderlearned reaction

   Narrowerconditioned avoidance

Questions about conditional reaction

What does conditional reaction mean?

conditional reaction means "an acquired response that is under the control of (conditional on the occurrence of) a stimulus".

What is another word for conditional reaction?

Close synonyms include conditional reflex, conditioned reflex, acquired reflex, conditioned reaction, conditional response. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conditional reaction a common word?

conditional reaction is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.