discriminative stimulus

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   a stimulus that provides information about what to do

   Synonymscue

   Broaderstimulation

Questions about discriminative stimulus

What does discriminative stimulus mean?

discriminative stimulus means "a stimulus that provides information about what to do".

What is another word for discriminative stimulus?

Close synonyms include cue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is discriminative stimulus a common word?

discriminative 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.