Important Definitions in Classical Conditioning

A reply or reaction, is the definition of a Response.

An automatic and often inborn response to a stimulus that involves a nerveimpulse passing inward from a receptor to a nerve center and thence outward toan effector without reaching the level of consciousness is thedefinition of Reflex.

Something that rouses or incites to activity is a definition of a Stimulus.

When the desired behavior or increasingly closer approximations to it arefollowed by a rewarding or reinforcing stimulus, that is the definition of OperantConditioning.

These definitions are taken from the Websters College edition