stimuli

Business

(noun)

An external force which generates a response or a reaction from something else

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Psychology

(noun)

In psychology, any energy patterns (e.g., light or sound) that are registered by the senses.

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  • olfactory
  • priming
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  • Perception
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(noun)

In psychology, any energy patterns (e.g. light or sound) which are registered by the senses.

Related Terms

  • dendrite
  • olfactory
  • priming
  • stimulus
  • axon
  • neurotransmitter
  • Perception
  • synapse
Marketing

(noun)

Something external that influences an activity.

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  • communication

Examples of stimuli in the following topics:

  • Humoral, Hormonal, and Neural Stimuli

    • The release of hormones can be triggered by changes in the blood ("humor"), by the actions of other hormones, or by neurological stimuli.
    • Hormonal stimuli refers to the release of a hormone in response to another hormone.
    • In some cases, the nervous system directly stimulates endocrine glands to release hormones, which is referred to as neural stimuli.
  • Selection

    • Most of us are presented with millions of sensory stimuli a day.
    • Long-term motivations also influence what stimuli we attend to.
    • Emotional drives can also influence the selective attention humans pay to stimuli.
    • This shows that infants selectively attend to specific stimuli in their environment.
    • Humans who could attend closely to these stimuli were more likely to survive than their counterparts, since some intense stimuli (like pain, powerful smells, or loud noises) can indicate danger.
  • Unconscious Perception

    • We encounter more stimuli than we can attend to; unconscious perception helps the brain process all stimuli, not just those we take in consciously.
    • Individuals take in more stimuli from their environment than they can consciously attend to at any given moment.
    • The brain is constantly processing all the stimuli it is exposed to, not just those that it consciously attends to.
    • Priming occurs when an unconscious response to an initial stimulus affects responses to future stimuli.
    • A number of studies have examined how unconscious stimuli influence human perception.
  • Performed individually

    • Subjective stimuli: Observations about an individual's surrounding environment and nature made by the individual, as well as more affective and temporal judgments about things not really seen but that are definitely felt.
  • Introducing the Perception Process

    • Perception is the set of unconscious processes we undergo to make sense of the stimuli and sensations we encounter.
    • Our brains engage in a three-step process when presented with stimuli: selection, organization, and interpretation.
    • The perceptual process is a sequence of steps that begins with stimuli in the environment and ends with our interpretation of those stimuli.
    • By putting different stimuli into categories, we can better understand and react to the world around us.
    • Rubin's Vase is a popular optical illusion used to illustrate differences in perception of stimuli.
  • Psychology of Purchasing

    • It posited that behavioral tendencies are determined by immediate associations between various environmental stimuli and the degree of pleasure or pain that follows.
    • Behavioral patterns, then, were understood to consist of organisms' conditioned responses to the stimuli in their environment.
    • It posited that behavioral tendencies are determined by immediate associations between various environmental stimuli and the degree of pleasure or pain that follows.
    • Behavioral patterns, then, were understood to consist of organisms' conditioned responses to the stimuli in their environment.
    • The stimuli were held to exert influence in proportion to their prior repetition or to the previous intensity of their associated pain or pleasure.
  • Interpretation

    • In the interpretation stage of perception, we attach meaning to stimuli.
    • Each stimulus or group of stimuli can be interpreted in many different ways.
    • Prior experience plays a major role in the way a person interprets stimuli.
    • Different individuals react differently to the same stimuli, depending on their prior experience of that stimuli.
    • Cultural scripts dictate how positive and negative stimuli should be interpreted.
  • Pain Sensation

    • Pain is an unpleasant sensation caused by the activation of nociceptors by thermal, mechanical, chemical, or other stimuli.
    • A nociceptor is a sensory receptor that responds to potentially damaging stimuli by sending nerve signals to the spinal cord and brain.
    • So it is possible that some of the transducers for thermal stimuli are the same for mechanical stimuli.
    • The peripheral terminal of the mature nociceptor is where the noxious stimuli are detected and transduced into electrical energy.
    • C fibers respond to thermal, mechanical, and chemical stimuli and terminate at the Rexed lamina II (labeled II in the diagram).
  • Reception

    • In more advanced animals, the senses are constantly at work, making the animal aware of stimuli, such as light or sound or the presence of a chemical substance in the external environment, while monitoring information about the organism's internal environment.
    • Additionally, we possess general senses, also called somatosensation, which respond to stimuli like temperature, pain, pressure, and vibration.
    • Free nerve endings can be stimulated by several different stimuli, thus showing little receptor specificity.
    • The first step in sensation is reception: the activation of sensory receptors by stimuli such as mechanical stimuli (being bent or squished, for example), chemicals, or temperature.
    • The receptor can then respond to the stimuli.
  • Behavior Modification

    • Modifying behavior through reinforcement and environmental stimuli can increase positive actions and decrease negative actions in the workplace.
    • External forces that impact behavior are referred to as stimuli, and understanding what type of stimuli may modify behavior is useful in leading organizations.
    • Reinforcement, both positive and negative, can be created via incentives or the removal and avoidance of negative stimuli. 
    • Differentiate between the various stimuli managers use to create or reinforce certain types of behavior
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