Conditioned Response - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: conditioned responseconditioned response
a behavioral response to a stimulus that has been acquired by experience or conditioning...
conditioning
a learning process in which an organisms behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment See conditioned response...
conditioned emotional response
an emotional response that has been acquired by conditioning...
Pavlovian
Of or pertaining to Ivan Pavlov or the principles of conditioned responses that he investigated as a Pavlovian response...
Collective responsibility
Collective responsibility, the concept of collective responsibility is essentially a political concept. The country is governed by the party in power on the basis of the policies adopted and laid down by it in the Cabinet meeting. 'Collective responsibility' has two meanings: the first meaning which can legitimately be ascribed to it is that all members of a government are unanimous in support of its policies and would exhibit that unanimity on public occasions although while formulating the polices, they might have expressed a different view in the meeting of the Cabinet. The other meaning is that Ministers, who had an opportunity to speak for or against the polices in the Cabinet are thereby personally and morally responsible for its success and failure, Common Cause, A Registered Society v. Union of India, (1999) 6 SCC 667 (698): AIR 1999 SC 2977. [Constitution of India, Arts. 75(3), 226 and 32]Is the responsibility of a number of individuals acting together, responsibility of a Cab...
extinguished
caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement of a conditioned response...
condition
condition 1 : an uncertain future act or event whose occurrence or nonoccurrence determines the rights or obligations of a party under a legal instrument and esp. a contract ;also : a clause in the instrument describing the act or event and its effect concurrent condition : a condition that is to be fulfilled by one party at the same time that a mutual condition is to be fulfilled by another party condition implied in law : constructive condition in this entry condition precedent [-pri-sēd-nt, -pre-sə-dənt] : a condition that must be fulfilled before performance under a contract can become due, an estate can vest, or a right can become effective condition subsequent : a condition whose fulfillment defeats or modifies an estate or right already in effect or vested or discharges an already existing duty under a contract constructive condition : a condition created by operation of law called also condition implied in law compare express condition in this entry e...
Condition
Condition. An event upon which a right under contract or to property may arise, become altered, or cease. Condition has been used in connection with personal obligations to distinguish one kind of obligation from another in the same transaction and to limit property. In their primary meaning, conditions precedent are events, but for the happening of which, rights will not arise.A condition subsequent puts an end to a state of things which, but for its happening, would have continued. Dependent or collateral conditions depend upon their mutual fulfilment as in a contract for sale of land where, unless otherwise agreed, the payment of the purchase money is conditional upon the conveyance and vice versa.Conditions may be imposed by the parties, either expressly or by necessary implication arising our of the construction of the document or agreement, or they may be implied bylaw according to the nature of the transaction.A peculiarity of conditions precedent is that an illegal or impossibl...
partial responsibility
partial responsibility : diminished responsibility ...
Vicarious responsibility
Vicarious responsibility. A principal is liable for acts of his agent within the scope of his mandate. If A., an innocent principal, by B. his agent to report, misleads C., his selling agent, and C., relying on the report, innocently misleads the buyer, the latter may recover damages against the principal for deceit if B.'s report was reckless and untrue, London County Freehold, etc. Properties, Ltd. v. Berkeley Pro-perty, etc. Co. Ltd., 155 LT 190. The knowledge of the principal and his agent is one, Pearson v. Dublin Corporation 1907 AC 351; although the functions may have been divided and one only of the con-stituents has been guilty, the mind, and with it the guilt, if any, and the act are collectively the principal's, and his responsibility. Qui facit per alium facit per se....
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