conditioned response

If Vance were to be believed, he had been living under a rock, poked his head out one day and read some horrible things about Trump and as a conditioned response – he believed them.

It can be easy to dismiss micro expressions as conditioned responses taught by movies, television or other widely available visual stimulus.

What we really are, Puett says, is “a messy and potentially ugly bunch of stuff”, a collection of emotions and conditioned responses, with no guiding inner core.

But if you pick this snooze strategy, your body can’t learn the conditioned response between hearing the alarm and getting up.

"Create a gap between impulse and conditioned response," she advises.