discriminative stimulus (English, noun)
expansion: discriminative stimulus (plural discriminative stimuli)
Senses:
qualifier: behavioral psychology
glosses: 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.
Forms:
form: discriminative stimuli
tags: plural