elicitor

Examples

• All

• Once disgust to core disgust elicitors is established, other objects with similar perceptual characteristics will also evoke disgust.

  Academic text (1999)

• Also, disgust elicitors can probably be separated into different domains to more precisely predict behavior and develop strategies to deal with each type.

  Academic text (1999)

• Identify key situational elements and types of elicitors across the age span for specific temperament attributes.

  Academic text (1998)

• Young concentrates on cases in which the connections between perception and affect are relatively encapsulated and constrained by a specific range of elicitors.

  Academic text (1999)

• Developmental variation in the elicitors of temperamental responses such as fear or pleasure has been studied in the early years through contrived laboratory situations.

  Academic text (1998)

• Those neural circuits, which are discrete in their monitoring and controlling function and produce rapid, phenomenally salient responses to specific elicitors, are the affect programs.

  Academic text (1999)

• Core disgust elicitors, animals that evoke both fear and disgust, or reactions to the perceived presence of contagion may be distinct enough to require different educational strategies.

  Academic text (1999)

• Relate temperament to the organization of the subjective world by systematically exploring how developmental changes in the situational elicitors correspond to changes in the meaning of stimuli.

  Academic text (1998)

• The therapist used an elicitor to help the patient express their emotions during the session.

• Researchers identified an elicitor that effectively triggered the participants' responses in the study.

Synonyms

S

stimulus

vselicitor

289 4.5

Something that causes a person, animal, or plant to respond

is used especially in research or therapy to provoke responses

P

prompt

vselicitor

• Specialized

4 3.4

A short signal that tells someone to speak or act

is applied as a controlled probe to provoke responses in studies

E

effector

vselicitor

1 8.5

A person or thing that makes something happen

focuses on provoking a measured response rather than producing final results

E

excitor

vselicitor

• Specialized

9.8

A device that starts or increases electrical and biological activity

is used mainly as a research or therapy probe for provoking responses

How Provoking

provocation

58 7.2

elicitor

• Specialized

8.1

prompt

• Specialized

4 3.4

to cue

60 3.2

hint

153 1.5

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology