Stimulus

High school (ages 12+)
Thinking & Learning

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/stimulus

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the psychological concepts?Includes stimulus-response (S-R) relationships, stimulus generalization, and stimulus discrimination
2. What is the interdisciplinary applications?Relevant to psychology, physiology, neuroscience, economics, computer science, and marketing
3. How does a stimulus make our body react?Sensors in our body turn the change into an electric signal that travels to the brain, which decides what to do.
4. Why do we sometimes react differently to the same stimulus?Our brain uses past experiences, attention, and feelings to decide how strong the reaction should be.

Stimulus: An event or agent that causes a detectable change or response in an organism or system.
Transduction: The process of converting one form of energy into another, such as stimulus energy into electrical signals.
Stimulus Generalization: Responding to a stimulus that is similar to one previously associated with a response.
Stimulus Discrimination: The ability to differentiate between a learned stimulus and similar stimuli.