with regard to conditioning, a discrimination wherein the length of a stimulant or scenario is the controlling variable.
TEMPORAL DISCRIMINATION: "Temporal discrimination was used in the experiment to determine whether or not a lengthened exposure to the stimulus would increase its side effects."
Cite this page: N., Sam M.S., "TEMPORAL DISCRIMINATION," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 29, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/temporal-discrimination/ (accessed February 4, 2023).