External inhibition is a classical conditioning phenomenon in which a strong or unfamiliar stimulus, presented just before or during a conditioned stimulus, causes a temporary reduction in the conditioned response that the conditioned stimulus would normally produce. The effect illustrates that a conditioned response is not fixed but can be disrupted by unrelated environmental interference at the moment it would otherwise occur.
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External inhibition is the observed decrease of the response of a conditioned reaction when an external (distracting) stimulus that was not part of the original conditioned response set is introduced.
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