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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

Song by Sting

In Europe and America there's a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets

What does mean "Conditioned to"?
  

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"Conditioning" is a kind of learned behaviour, a way of responding to a specific stimulus (in this case "the threats in the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets"). It all sounds very Cold War to me....

— Yizhivika

  • "Conditioning" is a kind of learned behaviour, a way of responding to a specific stimulus (in this case "the threats in the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets").
  • It all sounds very Cold War to me....
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"Conditioning" is a kind of learned behaviour, a way of responding to a specific stimulus (in this case "the threats in the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets"). It all sounds very Cold War to me....
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I go along with Yizhivika. Some kind of reflex, I would add.
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