discriminative stimulus

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stimulus
noun[C]
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/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/us
/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/
something that causes growth ...
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To provide context, our laboratories have focused historically on analyzingdiscriminativestimuluscontrol.
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The lack of a specific external stimulus class associated with the uncertainty emotional response is given as a justification for rejecting thediscriminativestimulusinterpretation.
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It is certainly true that language is an effectivediscriminativestimulusfor complex behavioral patterning.
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We have also used it to describe presentation of a stimulus, presumed to be a reinforcer in this functional sense, which strengthens responding in the presence of adiscriminativestimulus.
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Its contributions in leading to a response is separate from eliciting anddiscriminativestimulus.
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This stimulus gets into action at the same time as the eliciting ordiscriminativestimulus.
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Thediscriminativestimulusis correlated with the differential availability of reinforcement, while the motivating operation is correlated with the differential effectiveness of a reinforcer.
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This is the opposite of adiscriminativestimuluswhich is a signal that reinforcement will occur.
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As small chains become mastered, i.e. are performed consistently following the initialdiscriminativestimulusprompt, they may be used as links in larger chains.
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Discriminativestimulussets the ground for a response to occur.
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A test of the negativediscriminativestimulusas a reinforcer of observing.
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The goal of response prompting is to transfer stimulus control from the prompt to the desireddiscriminativestimulus.
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The fact that the discriminated operant occurs only in the presence of thediscriminativestimulusis an illustration of stimulus control.
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Abundant evidence exists that internal states can serve as discriminative stimuli.
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Psychophysical testing was carried out according to a variation of the method of constant stimuli, using high-contrast, square-wave gratings as discriminative stimuli.
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Adiscriminativestimulusis a type of controlling stimulus; its presence increases the probability that a behavior will occur by its previous reliable signaling of the availability of reinforcement.
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In traditional terms, one would say that the relative strength of two discriminative stimuli matches their relative strength as conditional reinforcers.
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