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Aversive stimulus

A stimulus effective as a negative reinforcer or as a punisher, or that suppresses positively reinforced operant behaviour during another stimulus that precedes it. A stimulus with any one of these effects is likely also to have the others, but it is not guaranteed to do so.

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