Stimulus vs Superstimulus - What's the difference?
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(rfc-sense) Anything that may have an impact or influence on a system.
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(rfc-sense) (physiology) Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response.
(rfc-sense) (psychology) Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism, including physical phenomena both internal and external to the body.
(rfc-sense) Anything that induces a person to take action.
A supernormal stimulus; an exaggerated version of a stimulus to which there is an existing response tendency, or any stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the stimulus for which it evolved.
As nouns the difference between stimulus and superstimulus
is that stimulus is anything that may have an impact or influence on a system while superstimulus is a supernormal stimulus; an exaggerated version of a stimulus to which there is an existing response tendency, or any stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the stimulus for which it evolved.stimulus
English
(wikipedia stimulus)Noun
(stimuli)- an economic stimulus
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