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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