discriminative stimulus

English

Noun

discriminative stimulus (plural discriminative stimuli)

(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.

Synonyms

Sd

Coordinate terms

stimulus delta

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