EDUCATION UGC NET
CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND PEDAGOGY
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stimulus
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learning
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connectionism
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physical objects
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Detailed explanation-1: -A stimulus causes an action or response, like the ringing of your alarm clock if you didn’t sleep through it. Stimulus is a word often used in biology-something that causes a reaction in an organ or cell, for example.
Detailed explanation-2: -A stimulus is anything that can trigger a physical or behavioral change. The plural of stimulus is stimuli. Stimuli can be external or internal. An example of external stimuli is your body responding to a medicine.
Detailed explanation-3: -Final answer: The reaction to a stimulus is called response.
Detailed explanation-4: -In physiology, a stimulus is a detectable change in the physical or chemical structure of an organism’s internal or external environment. The ability of an organism or organ to detect external stimuli, so that an appropriate reaction can be made, is called sensitivity (excitability).