Word Finder - stimulus

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Any external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon.

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an economic stimulus

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Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response.

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Anything effectively impinging upon any of the sensory apparatuses of a living organism, including physical phenomena both internal and external to the body.

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Anything that induces a person to take action.

The statistics of the killed usually afford all necessary stimulus to improvement.

My teacher, realizing this, determined to supply the kinds of stimulus I lacked.

Newborns will respond to several types of stimulus.

The mean peak of the response was at 10.5 sec after stimulus onset, with little further change until stimulus onset, with little further change until stimulus offset.

The genuine significance of Leo lies rather in the stimulus which he gave.

Meanwhile he had been developing his attack on the feminist movement, which had received a great stimulus in Scandinavia from the dramas of Ibsen.

The demonstration by Pasteur that definite diseases could be produced by bacteria, proved a great stimulus to research in the etiology of infective conditions, and the result Historical was a rapid advance in human knowledge.

Acute pain-Pain in response to injury or another stimulus that resolves when the injury heals or the stimulus is removed.

The work of Metchnikoff, dating from about 1884, has proved of high importance, his theory of phagocytosis (vide infra) having given a great stimulus to research, and having also contributed to important advances.

Largely in consequence of this progress, and partly no doubt owing to the stimulus given by the activity of builders of dirigible balloons, the construction of motor-driven aeroplanes began to attract a number of workers, especially in France.

A great stimulus was given to the improvement of land by the passing in England of a series of acts of parliament, which removed certain obstacles that effectually hindered tenants with limited interests from investing capital in works of drainage and kindred amelioration.

But the Charter is a great stimulus for us to re-examine the means by whereby the Neo-liberal offensive was carried through.

Sensory Fusion Present each eye with different stimulus If sensory fusion intact - patient will report a combined percept.

There is evidently no change in the purely sensory experience, i.e., in the sensory stimulus to the organism.

The finding adds to previous research by showing that it's not only brain activity elicited by a to-be-remembered stimulus that is important.

First, practice at the driving game would have altered the visual stimulus for all of the participants over the week.

The demand for animals for stock-breeding purposes sent up prices, and this acted as a stimulus to other branches of trade, so that, as peace under the Roca regime seemed assured, a steady flow of immigration from Italy set in.

This reduces the stimulus to one of contact, which is in harmony with the observations made upon roots similarly stimulated from the exterior.

Response to the action of gravity appears to be associated with the movements of starch grains in certain cellsstatolith cellsby which pressure is exerted on the cytoplasm and a stimulus set up which results in the geotropic response.

After a short time his father removed to the " rustic solitude " of Buriton (Hants), but young Gibbon lived chiefly at the house of his maternal grandfather at Putney, where, under the care of his devoted aunt, he developed, he tells us, that passionate love of reading " which he would not exchange for all the treasures of India," and where his mind received its most decided stimulus.

The friends of individual liberty and local government naturally found in the assumption by the central government of even the minimum of its granted powers constant stimulus to their fears (see Democratic Party); while the financial measures of Hamilton - whose wish for extreme centralization was nowise satisfied by the government actually created in 1787 - were calculated to force an immediate and firm assumption by that government, to the limit, of every power it could be held to possess.

The rapid advance of Belgium in industrial and manufacturing prosperity, due largely to the stimulus of William's personal initiative, did nothing to bring north and south together, but rather increased their rivalry and jealousy, for the Dutch provinces had neither manufactures nor ironand coal-mines, but were dependent on agriculture and sea-borne commerce for their welfare.

By it is meant the property an organism endowed with the power of movement has to move towards or away from a chemical stimulus applied unilaterally, or, at any rate, where it is applied in a more concentrated state on the one side than on the others, and more particularly where the concentration increases gradually in one direction away from the living organism acted upon.

His theory of medicine professed to explain the processes of life and disease, and the methods of cure, upon one simple principle - that of the property of" excitability,"in virtue of which the" exciting powers,"defined as being (1) external forces and (2) the functions of the system itself, call forth the vital phenomena" sense, motion, mental function and passion."All exciting powers are stimulant, the apparent debilitating or sedative effect of some being due to a deficiency in the degree of stimulus; so that the final conclusion is that" the whole phenomena of life, health as well as disease, consist in stimulus and nothing else."Brown recognized some diseases as sthenic, others as asthenic, the latter requiring stimulating treatment, the former the reverse; but his practical conclusion was that 97% of all diseases required a" stimulating "treatment.

Artistic pleasure, grown less delicate, required the stimulus of a more sensational effect or a more striking realism, as we may see by the Pergamene and Rhodian schools of sculpture, by the bas-reliefs with the genre subjects drawn from the life of the countryside, or, in literature by the sort of historical writing which became popular with Cleitarchus and Duris, by the studied emotional or rhetorical point of Callimachus, and by the portrayal of country life in Theocritus.

The limited supply and high price of these tiles for a time impeded the progress of the new system of draining; but the invention of tile-making machines removed this impediment, and gave a stimulus to this fundamental agricultural improvement.

It might have emerged in any case; but Canning, with his brilliant popular gifts and his frank appeal to popular support, gave it a revivifying stimulus which it would never have received froman aristocrat of the type of Castlereagh.

During 1877 the new federation of Liberal Associations which became known as the "Caucus" was started under Mr Chamberlain's influence in Birmingham - its secretary, Mr Schnadhorst, quickly making himself felt as a wire-puller of exceptional ability; and the new organization had a remarkable effect in putting life into the Liberal party, which since Mr Gladstone's retirement in 1874 had been much in need of a stimulus.

The child comes into the world with the ability to learn, and he learns of himself, provided he is supplied with sufficient outward stimulus.

Whatever the stimulus for erosion and deposition, the sediments within these hollows typically contain an important record of local environmental change.

Obviously a time could come when there is sufficient slack in the economy on any basis and some stimulus might be in order.

Female stickleback have silver bellies, this is the stimulus that attracts the males.

Noxious stimulus Stimulus that causes or has the potential to cause pain.

The mean peak of the response was at 10.5 sec after stimulus onset, with little further change until stimulus offset.

The current was adjusted to obtain the greatest twitch at the lowest stimulus intensity.

Challenge A stimulus for creativity can be the challenge presented by a task.

Ask questions about what the learner writes to create stimulus for writing.

You might expect herring gulls to have evolved so that they more closely match the characteristics of the supernormal stimulus.

We now believe that the tetanic stimulus causes the release of a large amount of GABA.

An event that produces a response without prior learning is called the unconditioned stimulus.

Name the kind of learning in which a stimulus which usually produces an unconditioned response is manipulated to produce a conditioned response.

While this is a physical activity, it is strictly involuntary and results as a response from some type of stimulus.

These artificial forms of stimulus don't enrich your baby's brain the way that other toys do.

A feline will be restless and respond violently to almost any stimulus.

This negative stimulus eventually teaches your dog to knock it off.

There are ten different levels of stimulation, but you should always begin with the lowest setting and only dial up to the next higher setting if your dog doesn't respond to the stimulus.

As part of the federal stimulus, the Obama Administration has earmarked $3.2 billion for energy efficiency upgrades.

Teens are continuously trapped in a stimulus filled world.

It shifts control to a milk removal driven process, i.e., sucking stimulus.

It is an organ that actively produces milk due to the stimulus of the infant's sucking; the removal of milk from the breasts causes continued milk production.