What Does Stimulus Discrimination Mean
Discriminative stimuli set the occasion for behaviors that have been reinforced in their presence in the past.
What does stimulus discrimination mean. Stimulus discrimination occurs in psychology when there are different consequences for the same behavior depending on the situation. The concept of stimulus discrimination follows from the idea of stimulus generalization which is when we respond not only to the original stimulus but also to other similar stimuli. In classical conditioning discrimination is the ability to differentiate between a conditioned stimulus and other stimuli that have not been paired with an unconditioned stimulus.
An example of a stimulus discrimination is a joke that could be told with the result of laughter among a group of friends but the same joke may have repatriation if it is told in a church hall setting.