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stimulus substitution

a way of characterizing the outcome of classical conditioning when the conditioned stimulus is said to have taken on the functions of the unconditioned stimulus. For example, in Ivan Pavlov’s early experiments, the sound of a tone paired with food eventually came to elicit salivation, just as the food did; that is, the tone substituted for the food. This characterization is no longer widely accepted.

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successive reproduction

successive reproduction

see repeated reproduction.