| cue | In conditioning and learning theory, a pattern of stimuli to which an individual has learned or is learning to respond. Response-produced cues, successive stimulus cue's in a behaviour chain, each response serving as a reinforcer for the previous response and as a stimulus, or cue, for the next response. See: higher order conditioning, behaviour chain. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| cues | Signals for an action; that specific portion of a perceptual field or pattern of stimuli to which a subject has learned to respond. (12 Dec 1998) |