English Explanatory Dictionary

discriminative stimulus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A stimulus, associated with reinforcement or punishment, that exerts control over a particular form of behavior; the subject discriminates between closely related stimuli and elicits a specific behavior more frequently or less frequently only in the presence of that stimulus.

Word forms

discriminative stimulus discriminative stimuli

Synonyms

Sd
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