training

training
An organized system of education, instruction, or discipline.
- assertive t. a form of behavior modification or therapy in which a client is taught to feel free to make legitimate demands and refusals in situations which previously elicited diffident responses. SYN: assertive conditioning.
- aversive t. a form of behavior t. or modification in which a noxious event is used to punish or extinguish undesirable behavior. SEE ALSO: aversion therapy. SYN: aversive conditioning.
- avoidance t. SYN: avoidance conditioning.
- escape t. SYN: escape conditioning.
- toilet t. t. directed at teaching a child proper control of bladder and bowel functions; psychoanalytic personality theory believes that the attitudes of both parent and child concerning this t. may have important psychologic implications for the child's later development.

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train·ing (trānґing) a system of instruction or teaching; preparation by instruction and practice.

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