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Stimulus vs. Incentive — What's the Difference?

Stimulus vs. Incentive — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Stimulus and Incentive

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Stimulus

A thing or event that evokes a specific functional reaction in an organ or tissue
Areas of the brain which respond to auditory stimuli

Incentive

An incentive is something that motivates or drives one to do something or behave in a certain way. There are two types of incentives that affect human decision making.

Stimulus

Something causing or regarded as causing a response.

Incentive

A thing that motivates or encourages someone to do something
Give farmers an incentive to improve their land

Stimulus

An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response.
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Incentive

Something, such as the fear of punishment or the expectation of reward, that induces action or motivates effort.

Stimulus

Something that incites or rouses to action; an incentive
"Works which were in themselves poor have often proved a stimulus to the imagination" (W.H. Auden).

Incentive

Serving to induce or motivate
An incentive bonus for high productivity.

Stimulus

Government spending designed to generate or increase economic activity.

Incentive

Something that motivates, rouses, or encourages.
I have no incentive to do housework right now.

Stimulus

An external phenomenon that has an influence on a system, by triggering or modifying an internal phenomenon; for example, a spur or incentive that drives a person to take action or change behaviour.
An economic stimulus

Incentive

A bonus or reward, often monetary, to work harder.
Management offered the sales team a $500 incentive for each car sold.

Stimulus

Something external that elicits or influences a physiological or psychological activity or response, or that affects any of the sensory apparatuses.

Incentive

Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulating.

Stimulus

A sting on the body of a plant or insect.

Incentive

Serving to kindle or set on fire.

Stimulus

A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.

Incentive

Inciting; encouraging or moving; rousing to action; stimulative.
Competency is the most incentive to industry.

Stimulus

That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ.

Incentive

Serving to kindle or set on fire.
Part incentive reedProvide, pernicious with one touch of fire.

Stimulus

Any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action

Incentive

That which moves or influences the mind, or operates on the passions; that which incites, or has a tendency to incite, to determination or action; that which prompts to good or ill; motive; spur; as, the love of money, and the desire of promotion, are two powerful incentives to action.
The greatest obstacles, the greatest terrors that come in their way, are so far from making them quit the work they had begun, that they rather prove incentives to them to go on in it.

Incentive

A positive motivational influence

Incentive

An additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output

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