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Environmental Stimulus

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025
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Verified for the 2026 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated August 2025

Definition

An environmental stimulus refers to any object or event in the external environment that can be detected by our senses and elicit a response from an organism.

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