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AVERSIVE STIMULUS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("aversive stimulus" is a kind of...):
negative stimulus (a stimulus with undesirable consequences)
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