Conditioning

Conditioning may refer to:

Science, computing, and technology

 * Air conditioning, the removal of heat from indoor air for thermal comfort
 * Automobile air conditioning, air conditioning in a vehicle
 * Ice storage air conditioning, air conditioning using ice storage
 * Solar air conditioning, air conditioning using solar power
 * Beer conditioning, maturation, clarification, and stabilisation of beer
 * Bottle conditioning, above conditioning after bottling
 * Chemical conditioning, improvement and stabilization chemical components
 * Data conditioning, the use of data management techniques in a computer system
 * Flow conditioning, the study of the movement of fluids in pipes
 * Signal conditioning, manipulating an analog signal in such a way that it meets the requirements of the next stage

Biology and physical fitness

 * Aerobic conditioning, exercise which trains the heart and lungs to pump blood more efficiently
 * Body conditioning via physical exercise

Learning

 * Classical conditioning or Pavlovian conditioning, a behavioral mechanism in which one stimulus comes to signal the occurrence of a second stimulus
 * Eyeblink conditioning, classical conditioning involving pairing of a stimulus with an eyeblink-eliciting stimulus
 * Fear conditioning, classical conditioning involving aversive stimuli
 * Second-order conditioning, a two-step process in classical conditioning
 * Covert conditioning, classical and operant conditioning in mental health treatment
 * Operant conditioning or instrumental conditioning, a form of learning in which behavior is modified by its consequences
 * Social conditioning, operant conditioning training individuals to act in a society
 * Evaluative conditioning, a form of learning in which attitude towards one stimulus is learnt by its pairing with a second stimulus

Mathematics

 * Condition number also known as Conditioning (numerical analysis), a quantity describing whether or not a numerical problem is well-behaved
 * Conditioning (probability), a concept in probability theory