noun
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different
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Four different sets of stimuli were used.
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A set of mime sketches under the title Speak Easy provide a different kind of stimulus to oral production.
external
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As a result, they do not merely react to external stimuli , they do not simply behave, they act.
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The trigger is usually some external stimulus , not necessarily an obvious one.
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They give rise to behavioural responses to external stimuli that are enduring and consistent within a person's psychological constitution.
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In the same way, external stimuli become incorporated into dreams in order to reduce their arousing effect.
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Cognitive social psychologists assume that it is pan of human nature to reduce uncertainty by processing the external stimulus world through schemata.
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In the past century the institutions and the external stimuli affecting the relation between finance and industry have been chopped and changed.
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We do not initiate action; we react to a series of external stimuli .
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More significantly, he also realized that this electrical activity was affected by external stimuli falling on the sense organs.
fiscal
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With no room for a fiscal stimulus in most countries, there seems little they can do to boost output and jobs.
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As we have pointed out elsewhere, t6day the economy automatically deploys fiscal stimuli when the business cycle winds down.
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The commitment also rules out any further fiscal stimulus , particularly as the budget deficit is already so high and rising fast.
major
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The abolition of internal customs tolls in 1775 provided a major stimulus .
other
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They can be trained to run simple mazes or to associate food with colours or other visual stimuli .
powerful
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Using an item of costume can be a powerful stimulus to initiate dramatic play.
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But it is certain that until recently a powerful stimulus was the superabundance of labour.
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Fear had raised their body heat, and the scent of him was a powerful stimulus her senses responded to.
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The emerging thinking among many educational theorists is that music and the other arts may provide a powerful stimulus to learning itself.
visual
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It can also influence learned and voluntary reactions to visual stimuli when the visual cortex is absent.
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The eye must be correctly connected to a brain, within a complex organism which is able to react to visual stimuli .
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They can be trained to run simple mazes or to associate food with colours or other visual stimuli .
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There are lots of ceramics books, postcards and other visual stimuli around the shop, too, to help the hesitant.
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For example, most infants smile to visual stimuli at about 5 weeks of age.
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A child presented with a visual stimulus tends to center or fix attention on a limited perceptual aspect of the stimulus.
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Another response to a visual stimulus was Thomson's series of musical portraits of people such as Picasso and Aaron Copland.
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There are now less visual stimuli , but it is still far too loud.
■ NOUN
material
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The stimulus material was a short silent comedy film made by Mack Sennet around 1925.
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There are practical assignments which feature a wide variety of stimulus materials , in realistic contexts.
package
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They wanted the stimulus package , much of which would have been spent in inner cities.
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Telecommunications shares gained on expectations of earnings growth as well as the hopes for the government stimulus package .
target
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These latter, as in Wagner's theory, will play their part in lowering the associability of the target stimulus .
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Presenting the target stimulus in a new context will eliminate some sources of internal input to the stimulus.
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Two groups of rats received 14 sessions of habituation training in context A with a light as the target stimulus .
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Differentiation theory, by contrast, asserts that merely observing target stimuli will be enough to produce some effect.
■ VERB
act
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He redefined emotions as sets of bodily reactions which could, in turn, effectively act as stimuli to control further behaviour.
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His opinion was that such a reduction would act as a stimulus to further development work, and recommended its immediate implementation.
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When a bad habit is well established anxiety alone may act as the stimulus .
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But it is unrealistic to suppose that they will act without public stimulus .
follow
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Purkinje and hippocampal neurons are noted for their plasticity because they show long-term changes in neural transmission following certain stimulus regimes.
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In operant conditioning, the response should directly follow the stimulus .
give
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Or is it more akin to mechanics whereby a given stimulus produces an automatic response?
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The encouragement given made for a great rapport with the class and gave a stimulus to improve the lectures.
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National fears gave a minor stimulus to arguments for racial purity.
need
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It needs that extra-special final stimulus .
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Unlike the highly sensitive child, who is easily overwhelmed by too much stimuli , this child needs a lot of stimuli.
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Rottweilers need plenty of new stimuli: rides in the car and very short walks outside the home environment.
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What was needed was the necessary stimulus .
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This time, they had not needed the stimulus of an aphrodisiac.
present
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S/he then pressed the button to present the stimulus card and start the timer.
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The environment presents the individual with stimuli and opportunities and also with obstacles to certain political beliefs and actions.
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A child presented with a visual stimulus tends to center or fix attention on a limited perceptual aspect of the stimulus.
produce
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All the forms of training used in the experiments described earlier in this chapter will produce stimulus differentiation.
provide
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Arrangement of ideas on the board provides a stimulus for new ideas and lateral thinking. 4.
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Watching television provides stimuli for discussion.
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Project Video stimulates active language use Project Video provides a stimulus for learners to produce their own projects.
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The ideas and techniques it set forth provided the initial stimulus for Romantic drama.
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In addition, the clarification of such issues could well provide the initial stimulus for a whole school language policy.
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The emerging thinking among many educational theorists is that music and the other arts may provide a powerful stimulus to learning itself.
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Something, perhaps, about colonial vigour providing a necessary stimulus to decadent metropolitan culture?
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The child's actions on the material world also provide a stimulus for conceptual development.
react
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At the same time the sensory awareness of the organism, and its ability to react to stimuli , are also withdrawn.
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The eye must be correctly connected to a brain, within a complex organism which is able to react to visual stimuli .
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As a result, they do not merely react to external stimuli , they do not simply behave, they act.
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Each device is an organism that reacts to stimulus and communicates with the others.
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Atoms and molecules do not act in terms of meanings, they simply react to external stimuli .
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People react to external stimuli and their behaviour can be explained in terms of this reaction.
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There seems to be a readiness in the baby to react keenly to visual stimuli during the first few months of life.
receive
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Education received what stimulus limited resources would allow, particularly primary education in the departments.
respond
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This phenomenon, in which an animal responds to a repeated stimulus by eventually disregarding it, is familiar to everyone.
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It is natural for human beings to avoid responding to any new stimulus unless it somehow affects them personally.
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Nerve cells are excitable - that is, they respond to stimuli .
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They readily respond to these stimuli , though it would be difficult to call it learning.
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This shows that the time to respond to a basic stimulus is fairly small.
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Alternatively, they may have been mistreated, and so only respond to that particular stimulus .
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Dawn was in a deep coma, and was not responding to painful stimuli , although her pupils were not fixed.
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They may be aggressive, self-abusive, and slow to move or respond to outside stimuli .
show
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The left part of each half shows the stimulus configuration which produced the pattern of impulses shown in the right part.
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What the psychologists showed was that stimulus elements in groups had properties not present in the individual elements.
use
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We do not attribute awareness to other species which obviously use similar private stimuli .
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However, such interaction is more effectively used in the drinking stimulus portion of the scenes than in the sensitization portion.
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However, lectures can be used as a stimulus , to present an overall view and to convey enthusiasm about the subject.
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They can be used for stimulus variation and they do reduce glare.
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Where Pavlov used pleasant stimuli , others have used unpleasant ones such as electric shocks.
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A third, and crucially important, experiment involved using external stimuli to influence the content of dreaming itself.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Tax cuts provided the stimulus the slow economy needed.
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The appointment of a new director gave the project immediate stimulus .
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The surge in new housing construction ought to provide a stimulus to the economy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A child presented with a visual stimulus tends to center or fix attention on a limited perceptual aspect of the stimulus.
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As we have seen, the stimulus given to the economy by Emancipation was at first limited.
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Elders are not passive objects merely conditioned by stimuli from society or their body.
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How do employers react to the supposed increased willingness of workers to offer more labour services resulting from a monetary stimulus ?
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Table 5 shows the results of a t-test between a stimulus and the value 0.5.
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They wanted the stimulus package, much of which would have been spent in inner cities.
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With sufficient training, however, both stimuli will lose the ability to evoke attention.