conditioned stimulus

noun

1. psychol a stimulus to which an organism has learned to make a response by classical conditioning Compare unconditioned stimulus

Example Sentences

During CFC, sensory features of the aversive event reach hippocampal output neurons through excitatory cortical afferents and require active inhibitory filtering to ensure that the hippocampus exclusively encodes the conditioned stimulus.

From Science Magazine

Eventually the conditioned stimulus becomes stealing, and the conditioned response becomes getting high.

From Salon