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stimulus generalization (medicine) and operating (iou)


stimulus generalization (medicine)


stimulus generalization


In Pavlovian conditioning, the eliciting of a conditioned response by stimuli never before experienced but which are similar to a particular conditioned stimulus.

See: conditioning, classical conditioning.


operating (iou)



operating verbal noun. M17.
[from OPERATE verb + -ING1.]
The action of OPERATE verb; an instance of this.
Comb.: operating profit Accountancy gross profit before deduction of expenses; operating room (chiefly N. Amer.) a room in a hospital where operations are performed, an operating theatre; operating system Computing a set of programs for organizing the resources and activities of a computer; operating-table: on which the patient is placed during an operation; operating theatre: see THEATRE noun 5b.