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aversive stimulus

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English

Syllables
aver-sive s-tim-u-lus
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

n

any negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it

Questions

What does aversive stimulus mean?
any negative stimulus to which an organism will learn to make a response that avoids it

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