Stimulus Inadequate

Inappropriate irritants and inappropriate people

Irritant (Latin irritans from irrodo “to make angry”) is a universal term traditionally accepted in biology, denoting the impact of one or another environmental factor, causing a specific change in the state of the body or some of its systems. Irritants can be almost any strong (gross) agents of a physical, chemical, biological or mental nature (so-called nonspecific), as a rule, provoking the development and actualization of adaptive and/or compensatory reactions of the body. Irritating substances, which most often include inadequate individuals, affect certain excitable tissue elements (receptors), and larger effects are also carried out through the nervous system. In psychology, adequate is the opposite in meaning of the word “inadequate” term. That is, **inadequate stimulus** is a psychogenic pathological factor of any kind of external (