STIMULUS


Meaning of STIMULUS in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

different

Four different sets of stimuli were used.

A set of mime sketches under the title Speak Easy provide a different kind of stimulus to oral production.

external

As a result, they do not merely react to external stimuli , they do not simply behave, they act.

The trigger is usually some external stimulus , not necessarily an obvious one.

They give rise to behavioural responses to external stimuli that are enduring and consistent within a person's psychological constitution.

In the same way, external stimuli become incorporated into dreams in order to reduce their arousing effect.

Cognitive social psychologists assume that it is pan of human nature to reduce uncertainty by processing the external stimulus world through schemata.

In the past century the institutions and the external stimuli affecting the relation between finance and industry have been chopped and changed.

We do not initiate action; we react to a series of external stimuli .

More significantly, he also realized that this electrical activity was affected by external stimuli falling on the sense organs.

fiscal

With no room for a fiscal stimulus in most countries, there seems little they can do to boost output and jobs.

As we have pointed out elsewhere, t6day the economy automatically deploys fiscal stimuli when the business cycle winds down.

The commitment also rules out any further fiscal stimulus , particularly as the budget deficit is already so high and rising fast.

major

The abolition of internal customs tolls in 1775 provided a major stimulus .

other

They can be trained to run simple mazes or to associate food with colours or other visual stimuli .

powerful

Using an item of costume can be a powerful stimulus to initiate dramatic play.

But it is certain that until recently a powerful stimulus was the superabundance of labour.

Fear had raised their body heat, and the scent of him was a powerful stimulus her senses responded to.

The emerging thinking among many educational theorists is that music and the other arts may provide a powerful stimulus to learning itself.

visual

It can also influence learned and voluntary reactions to visual stimuli when the visual cortex is absent.

The eye must be correctly connected to a brain, within a complex organism which is able to react to visual stimuli .

They can be trained to run simple mazes or to associate food with colours or other visual stimuli .

There are lots of ceramics books, postcards and other visual stimuli around the shop, too, to help the hesitant.

For example, most infants smile to visual stimuli at about 5 weeks of age.

A child presented with a visual stimulus tends to center or fix attention on a limited perceptual aspect of the stimulus.

Another response to a visual stimulus was Thomson's series of musical portraits of people such as Picasso and Aaron Copland.

There are now less visual stimuli , but it is still far too loud.

■ NOUN

material

The stimulus material was a short silent comedy film made by Mack Sennet around 1925.

There are practical assignments which feature a wide variety of stimulus materials , in realistic contexts.

package

They wanted the stimulus package , much of which would have been spent in inner cities.

Telecommunications shares gained on expectations of earnings growth as well as the hopes for the government stimulus package .

target

These latter, as in Wagner's theory, will play their part in lowering the associability of the target stimulus .

Presenting the target stimulus in a new context will eliminate some sources of internal input to the stimulus.

Two groups of rats received 14 sessions of habituation training in context A with a light as the target stimulus .

Differentiation theory, by contrast, asserts that merely observing target stimuli will be enough to produce some effect.

■ VERB

act

He redefined emotions as sets of bodily reactions which could, in turn, effectively act as stimuli to control further behaviour.

His opinion was that such a reduction would act as a stimulus to further development work, and recommended its immediate implementation.

When a bad habit is well established anxiety alone may act as the stimulus .

But it is unrealistic to suppose that they will act without public stimulus .

follow

Purkinje and hippocampal neurons are noted for their plasticity because they show long-term changes in neural transmission following certain stimulus regimes.

In operant conditioning, the response should directly follow the stimulus .

give

Or is it more akin to mechanics whereby a given stimulus produces an automatic response?

The encouragement given made for a great rapport with the class and gave a stimulus to improve the lectures.

National fears gave a minor stimulus to arguments for racial purity.

need

It needs that extra-special final stimulus .

Unlike the highly sensitive child, who is easily overwhelmed by too much stimuli , this child needs a lot of stimuli.

Rottweilers need plenty of new stimuli: rides in the car and very short walks outside the home environment.

What was needed was the necessary stimulus .

This time, they had not needed the stimulus of an aphrodisiac.

present

S/he then pressed the button to present the stimulus card and start the timer.

The environment presents the individual with stimuli and opportunities and also with obstacles to certain political beliefs and actions.

A child presented with a visual stimulus tends to center or fix attention on a limited perceptual aspect of the stimulus.

produce

All the forms of training used in the experiments described earlier in this chapter will produce stimulus differentiation.

provide

Arrangement of ideas on the board provides a stimulus for new ideas and lateral thinking. 4.

Watching television provides stimuli for discussion.

Project Video stimulates active language use Project Video provides a stimulus for learners to produce their own projects.

The ideas and techniques it set forth provided the initial stimulus for Romantic drama.

In addition, the clarification of such issues could well provide the initial stimulus for a whole school language policy.

The emerging thinking among many educational theorists is that music and the other arts may provide a powerful stimulus to learning itself.

Something, perhaps, about colonial vigour providing a necessary stimulus to decadent metropolitan culture?

The child's actions on the material world also provide a stimulus for conceptual development.

react

At the same time the sensory awareness of the organism, and its ability to react to stimuli , are also withdrawn.

The eye must be correctly connected to a brain, within a complex organism which is able to react to visual stimuli .

As a result, they do not merely react to external stimuli , they do not simply behave, they act.

Each device is an organism that reacts to stimulus and communicates with the others.

Atoms and molecules do not act in terms of meanings, they simply react to external stimuli .

People react to external stimuli and their behaviour can be explained in terms of this reaction.

There seems to be a readiness in the baby to react keenly to visual stimuli during the first few months of life.

receive

Education received what stimulus limited resources would allow, particularly primary education in the departments.

respond

This phenomenon, in which an animal responds to a repeated stimulus by eventually disregarding it, is familiar to everyone.

It is natural for human beings to avoid responding to any new stimulus unless it somehow affects them personally.

Nerve cells are excitable - that is, they respond to stimuli .

They readily respond to these stimuli , though it would be difficult to call it learning.

This shows that the time to respond to a basic stimulus is fairly small.

Alternatively, they may have been mistreated, and so only respond to that particular stimulus .

Dawn was in a deep coma, and was not responding to painful stimuli , although her pupils were not fixed.

They may be aggressive, self-abusive, and slow to move or respond to outside stimuli .

show

The left part of each half shows the stimulus configuration which produced the pattern of impulses shown in the right part.

What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements.

use

We do not attribute awareness to other species which obviously use similar private stimuli .

However, such interaction is more effectively used in the drinking stimulus portion of the scenes than in the sensitization portion.

However, lectures can be used as a stimulus , to present an overall view and to convey enthusiasm about the subject.

They can be used for stimulus variation and they do reduce glare.

Where Pavlov used pleasant stimuli , others have used unpleasant ones such as electric shocks.

A third, and crucially important, experiment involved using external stimuli to influence the content of dreaming itself.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Tax cuts provided the stimulus the slow economy needed.

The appointment of a new director gave the project immediate stimulus .

The surge in new housing construction ought to provide a stimulus to the economy.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A child presented with a visual stimulus tends to center or fix attention on a limited perceptual aspect of the stimulus.

As we have seen, the stimulus given to the economy by Emancipation was at first limited.

Elders are not passive objects merely conditioned by stimuli from society or their body.

How do employers react to the supposed increased willingness of workers to offer more labour services resulting from a monetary stimulus ?

Table 5 shows the results of a t-test between a stimulus and the value 0.5.

They wanted the stimulus package, much of which would have been spent in inner cities.

With sufficient training, however, both stimuli will lose the ability to evoke attention.

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