aversive stimulus

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   any negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it

   Broadernegative stimulus

Questions about aversive stimulus

What does aversive stimulus mean?

aversive stimulus means "any negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it".

Is aversive stimulus a common word?

aversive stimulus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.