"stimulus" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This led to the concept of the supernormal stimulus.
- The body of Tinbergen's research focused on what he termed supernormal stimuli.
- The result is often glitches in animals, including supernormal stimuli.
- The phrase "supernormal stimuli" was coined by the Dutch scientist Niko Tinbergen in the 1930s.
- Barrett's book Waistland (2007) explores the weight and fitness crisis in terms of supernormal stimuli for food and rest.
- Natural selection can leave animals behaving in detrimental ways when they encounter supernormal stimuli - like a moth flying into a flame.
- These exaggerated releasers for instincts were named supernormal stimuli by Tinbergen.
- Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett has done research pointing out how easily humans also respond to supernormal stimuli for sexual, nurturing, feeding, and social instincts.
- This is an example of a supernormal stimulus.
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