drive stimulus

drive stimulus

in Clark L. Hull’s theories of learning, any of the hypothetical nerve impulses produced by a drive state. Behaviors that reduce these impulses are reinforced or strengthened. See drive-reduction theory; Hull’s mathematico-deductive theory of learning.

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