Home › Words › A › autoshapingautoshapingautoshaping means an experimental procedure used to study classical conditioning by teaching a creature to respond to a stimulus.EtymologyFrom auto- + shaping.nounAn experimental procedure used to study classical conditioning by teaching a creature to respond to a stimulus.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.autoshaped 76% match — Conditioned by an autoshaping process. vs autoshaping →pavlov 57% match — To condition a person or animal to react to a stimulus, without consideration to the meaning of it. vs autoshaping →conditioning 54% match — The process of modifying a person or animal's behaviour. vs autoshaping →autolearning 53% match — automatic learning vs autoshaping →automatization 50% match — The process of making an action of a higher animal reflexive. vs autoshaping →pseudoconditioned 50% match — conditioned by means of pseudoconditioning vs autoshaping →pseudoconditioning 49% match — The production of a conditioned response to a neutral stimulus following repeated exposure to a conditioned stimulus vs autoshaping →autostimulate 47% match — to self-stimulate vs autoshaping →