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stimulus
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stimulus noun activator, animator, arouser, calcar, catalyst, catalytic agent, cause, drive, encouragement, fillip, goad, impetus, impulse, incentive, incitement, inducement, influence, mooivating force, motive, needle, prod, provocation, push, reason, shock, spur, stimulant, stimulation, stimulative, stimulator, sting, urge, whet
See also: cause, impetus, incentive, inducement, instigation, motive, origination, provocation, reason


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The presence of the bag of items at the beginning of each contingent access session probably functioned as a discriminative stimulus for compliance.
food or money) but idiosyncratic responses, supposedly containing both reinforcing and discriminative stimulus functions.
That is, if one learns to directly tact "Juice" in the presence of the discriminative stimulus (picture of juice), they may not emit the mand or "Juice" given relevant EO (cup of juice).
 
 
 
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