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Discriminative stimulus Moderate

Discriminative stimulus has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

a stimulus that provides information about what to do

2

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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stimulation
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