One causes a reaction

Usage examples of stimulus.

The amplitude of vibration, which determines the intensity of stimulus, can be accurately measured by the graduated circle.

Again, keeping the amplitude constant, the intensity of stimulus is increased by shortening the wire.

The pupil of the left eye, which was not round, but drawn angularly downward and inward, did not alter in dimension with the movements of the eye nor from the stimulus of light.

This nature, positive in the midst of its enthusiasms, that had loved the church for the sake of the flowers, and music for the words of the songs, and literature for its passional stimulus, rebelled against the mysteries of faith as it grew irritated by discipline, a thing antipathetic to her constitution.

I began to think about the implications of this experiment I realized that, straightforward enough though the effect may be, it clearly does not conform to any simple associationist theory derived by an extension of pavlovian or skinnerian conditioning theory, whose essence is the immediate linking in time of stimulus and response.

Conway began hopping over and around the brontosaur, with Arretapec, who was in rapport with the patient, reporting constantly on the effects of the various stimuli.

Using the anti-gravity belt to increase his mobility, Conway began hopping over and around the brontosaur, with Arretapec, who was in rapport with the patient, reporting constantly on the effects of the various stimuli.

To arrive unwelcomed at an inn--to wander through unknown streets and cities, without any stimulus of interest or curiosity--to traverse vast tracts of country, useless to others, a burthen to himself--alone, this would have been intolerable.

An extraterrestrial embryologist, having a close look at us from time to time, would probably conclude that the morphogenesis of the earth is coming along well, with the beginnings of a nervous system and fair-sized ganglions in the form of cities, and now with specialized, dish-shaped sensory organs, miles across, ready to receive stimuli.

The stimulus of acid is not, therefore, expected to bring about a complete formation of a polypeptide molecule, but only one small chemical reaction.

Thus the longer a wire is stimulated, the more and more overstrained it becomes, and it therefore requires a gradual prolongation of the interval between the successive stimuli, if recovery is to be complete.

From the sensations I then had, I felt an inner conviction of the liveliest kind, that without some powerful and reviving stimulus I should either have died on the spot, or should at least have sunk to a point of exhaustion from which all reascent under my friendless circumstances would soon have become hopeless.

The working of the reticular activating system and the mutual stimulation of hypothalamus and cortex may be insufficient to maintain wakefulness in the absence of a normal amount of varying stimuli entering the cortex.

If Schwartz killed, he might be expected to kill violently, in response to violent stimuli.

Hoarse Screamer cries welled all about him, however, becoming a frightening stimulus that drove him onward.