Written by the Fiveable Content Team โข Last updated September 2025
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Verified for the 2026 examโขWritten by the Fiveable Content Team โข Last updated September 2025
Definition
In psychology, discrimination refers to an organismโs ability to differentiate between a specific stimulus and similar ones but not identical stimuli.
This refers to the tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which it was originally conditioned.