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nounany stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action
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- food anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking
- answer react to a stimulus or command
- taste the sensation that results when taste buds in the tongue and throat convey information about the chemical composition of a soluble stimulus
- reaction a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
- response a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
- cue a stimulus that provides information about what to do
- conditioning a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment
- provoke provide the needed stimulus for
- extinction a conditioning process in which the reinforcer is removed and a conditioned response becomes independent of the conditioned stimulus
- detector any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner