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Discriminative Stimulus

A Discriminative Stimulus is a specific sensory, environmental, or interoceptive cue that functions as a signal for the availability of reinforcement or punishment, thereby governing the likelihood of an organism’s operant response through its predictive relationship with behavioral consequences in the context of drug discrimination paradigms.

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Personality and Assessment

Peter Madison, Walter Mischel · The American Journal of Psychology · 1968 · 4.4K citations

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Affective Discrimination of Stimuli That Cannot Be Recognized

William Raft Kunst-Wilson, Robert B. Zajonc · Science · 1980 · 1.2K citations

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A model for stimulus generalization in Pavlovian conditioning.

John M. Pearce · Psychological Review · 1987 · 1K citations

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Responses of monkey dopamine neurons during learning of behavioral reactions

T. Ljungberg, Paul Apicella, Wolfram Schultz · Journal of Neurophysiology · 1992 · 993 citations

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DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN DISCRIMINATIVE AND MOTIVATIONAL FUNCTIONS OF STIMULI

Jack Michael · Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior · 1982 · 962 citations · Full text

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    Kathleen A. Grant

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