negative stimulus
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- noun
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estímulo negativo
Examples
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The authors also examined the influence of positive and negative stimulus behavior on relational message interpretations.
Academic text (2003) -
For instance, when members of the public treat police officers with a lack of respect and perceive them to be incompetent, such responses may serve as negative stimuli.
Academic text (2000) -
There were 16 triads in each of the matched and nonmatched conditions, with 8 involving positive stimulus behavior and 8 involving negative stimulus behavior.
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Avoiding a negative stimulus can help improve a child's behavior in school.
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Receiving criticism can be a negative stimulus that discourages someone from trying again.
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A loud noise can act as a negative stimulus, causing animals to flee in fear.
Synonyms
Something unpleasant that makes a person or animal learn to stay away
An unpleasant thing that makes someone feel bad or lose interest
Antonyms
- Specialized
Something like praise or a reward that makes someone do something again
How Aversive
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'negative' (adverse/unpleasant) combined with 'stimulus' (something that triggers a response), yielding a trigger that produces an undesirable effect. This is a regular compositional noun phrase following standard English patterns and is cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Negative stimulus names a simple idea: a negative (bad or unpleasant) stimulus (something given to a person or animal, like a loud noise or a small shock) that is used to reduce a behavior. So, think of a loud noise after a wrong action — that image explains why it means 'something unpleasant used to reduce a specific behavior'.