discriminative stimuli

A form of discriminative stimulus — 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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noun
  1. pluralplural of discriminative stimulus
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