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  • 111stimulus discrimination — A phenomenon identified in behaviourist learning theory: the individual learns to distinguish, for response purposes, between similar stimuli …

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  • 112Stimulus Proposition — See Success Proposition …

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  • 113stimulus diffusion — noun : diffusion in which one people receives a culture element from another but gives it a new and unique form …

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  • 114stimulus word — noun : a word to which the subject reacts (as in an association test) …

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  • 115Chinese economic stimulus program — The stimulus includes plans to rebuild areas damaged by the 2008 earthquakes.[1] The 2008–2009 Chinese economic stimulus plan (simplified Chinese: 扩大内需十项措施; traditional Chinese …

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  • 116Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 — The Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 (USStatute|110|185|122|613|2008|02|13) is an Act of Congress providing for several kinds of economic stimulus intended to boost the United States economy in 2008 and to avert or ameliorate a recession. The… …

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  • 117Distal stimulus — The distal stimulus (or distal object), the proximal stimulus, and percept are three concepts used to describe perception.The distal stimulus is the stimulus of an object as it actually exists in the real world.The distal stimulus provides… …

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  • 118Poverty of the stimulus — The poverty of the stimulus (POTS) argument is a variant of the epistemological problem of the indeterminacy of data to theory that claims that grammar is unlearnable given the linguistic data available to children. As such, the argument strikes… …

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  • 119Neutral stimulus — A neutral stimulus is a stimulus which initially produces no specific response other than focusing attention. In classical conditioning, when used together with an unconditioned stimulus, the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus. See… …

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  • 120Proximal stimulus — In perception, the proximal stimulus refers to physical stimulation that is available to be measured by an observer s sensory apparatus. It can also refer to the neural activity that results from sensory transduction of the physical stimulation.… …

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