Discriminative stimulus

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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.
  2. 2
    a stimulus that provides information about what to do wordnet

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