"discriminative stimulus" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: discriminative stimuli [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|discriminative stimuli}} discriminative stimulus (plural discriminative stimuli)
  1. (behavioral psychology) 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. Wikipedia link: discriminative stimulus Synonyms: Sd Coordinate_terms: stimulus delta
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