HyperDic: aversive_stimulus

English > 1 sense of the expression aversive stimulus:
NOUNcognitionaversive stimulusany negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it
English > aversive stimulus: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition
MeaningAny negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it.
Broadernegative stimulusA stimulus with undesirable consequences

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