#conditioning  a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment
  supertype:  learning__acquisition  the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; "the child's acquisition of language"
  subtype:  aversive_conditioning  conditioning to avoid an aversive stimulus
  subtype:  classical_conditioning__classicalconditioning  conditioning that pairs a neutral stimulus with a stimulus that evokes a reflex; the stimulus that evokes the reflex is given whether or not the conditioned response occurs until eventually the neutral stimulus comes to evoke the reflex
  subtype:  operant_conditioning__operantconditioning  conditioning in which an operant response is brought under stimulus control by virtue of presenting reinforcement contingent upon the occurrence of the operant response
     subtype:  instrumental_conditioning  operant conditioning that pairs a response with a reinforcement in discrete trials; reinforcement occurs only after the response is given

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