stimulable
- adjective
- /ˈstɪmjʊləbəl/
- Specialized
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estimulable
- The therapist assessed whether the child was stimulable during the session by using various prompts.
Examples
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Teachers often look for signs that students are stimulable to tailor their instruction more effectively.
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He showed that he was stimulable by responding positively to certain cues in the learning environment.
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As such, a clinician could readily use this task to determine the degree of assistance required or the prompting level at which a child is stimulable to plan additional support for developing this skill.
Academic text (2015) -
As such, it could be inferred that for some third-grade students, the application of a morphological awareness strategy may still have been too difficult; however, they were stimulable and could demonstrate the application of a vocabulary meaning strategy to infer meaning when provided with the opportunity.
Academic text (2015)
Antonyms
How Responsive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stimulable comes from the Latin word stimulus, which meant a 'poke' or 'push' to make something move, and the ending -able means 'able to'. So something stimulable is 'able to be stimulated' — it can be made to react or respond when given a stimulus.