conditioned reflex

Pottgeiter looked at his watch, as from conditioned reflex, and then rose, saying that he had a class and excusing himself.

Negative adaptation is important in human life, and the conditioned reflex is important, as has already been suggested.

The conditioned reflex type of learning accounts for a host of acquired likes and dislikes.

My protest was merely an example of what Dr. Mallin would call conditioned reflex.

Some switch to chewing gum or candy, but the cure essentially lies in substituting one conditioned reflex for another.