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discriminative stimulus
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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.
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