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STIMULUS DISCRIMINATIF [4 records]

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Record 1 2008-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Animal Behaviour
OBS

Learning the opposite of a discrimination that has previously been acquired; having learned to choose A, not B, from a pair AB, the reversal would be learning to choose B.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement animal
DEF

Second apprentissage discriminatif dans lequel le stimulus antérieurement positif devient négatif et vice-versa.

CONT

On a trouvé que le surentraînement retardait l’apprentissage inverse chez les chats et les singes ayant une expérience très poussée. [...] En outre, Mackintosh (1969) a confirmé l’idée que le surentraînement facilite l’apprentissage de l’inversion dans des cas où la discrimination est difficile et la récompense importante. (HINCO, 1975, page 703).

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-04-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

A discriminative stimulus influences the occurrence of an operant response because of the contingencies of schedules of reinforcement of paradigms of reinforcement/punishment that are or have been associated with that response. Many authors further suggest that discriminative stimuli provide information to the organism, allowing it to respond appropriately in the presence of different stimuli. An observing response is sometimes necessary for presentation of the discriminative stimulus/stimuli.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
CONT

Un stimulus discriminatif est le stimulus particulier(ou la situation-stimulus particulière) face auquel une réponse est renforcée ou punie.

OBS

Pluriel : des stimulus, des stimuli.

OBS

stimulus (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l’orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
DEF

Technique qui permet d’établir le contrôle discriminatif d’un stimulus en certains cas difficiles.

OBS

Pluriel : des stimulus, des stimuli.

OBS

stimulus (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l’orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2006).

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-02-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Human Behaviour
DEF

... In programmed instruction, the gradual removal of the prompts in a sequence of items teaching a particular topic.

OBS

Supplementary source: PASCAL database.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie clinique
  • Comportement humain
DEF

[...] technique qui permet d’établir le contrôle discriminatif d’un stimulus en certains cas difficiles.

OBS

«évanouissement» : Source - base de données PASCAL.

Spanish

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