stimulus : Idioms & Phrases

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aversive stimulus

  • noun any negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it
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conditioned stimulus

  • noun the stimulus that is the occasion for a conditioned response
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discriminative stimulus

  • noun a stimulus that provides information about what to do
    cue.
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Heterologous stimulus

  • . (Physiol.) See under Stimulus.
Webster 1913

Homologous stimulus

  • . (Physiol.) See under Stimulus.
Webster 1913

negative reinforcing stimulus

  • noun a reinforcing stimulus whose removal serves to decrease the likelihood of the response that produced it
    negative reinforcer.
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negative stimulus

  • noun a stimulus with undesirable consequences
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positive reinforcing stimulus

  • noun a reinforcing stimulus that serves to increase the likelihood of the response that produces it
    positive reinforcer.
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positive stimulus

  • noun a stimulus with desirable consequences
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reinforcing stimulus

  • noun (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it
    reinforcer; reinforcement.
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stimulus generalisation

  • noun (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
    generalisation; stimulus generalisation; generalization.
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stimulus generalization

  • noun (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus
    generalisation; stimulus generalisation; generalization.
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