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elicit
has definitions from the field of logic
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[ verb ] call forth; of emotions, feelings, and responses
Examples "arouse pity" "raise a smile" "evoke sympathy" Used in print (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)Even more complex and obviously cortically induced forms of emotional_arousal could be elicited in monkey A on seeing monkey B ( but not a rabbit ) in emotional stress . It has further been shown that : ( 1 ) an experimental neurosis in its initial stages is associated with a reversible shift in the central autonomic balance ; ( 2 ) drugs altering the hypothalamic balance alter conditioned_reactions ; ( 3 ) in a state of depression , the positive conditioned_stimulus may fail to elicit a conditioned_reaction but cause an increased synchrony instead of the excitatory desynchronizing ( alerting ) effect on the EEG . The pain became thus the symbol for food and elicited salivary secretion ( conditioned_reflex ) . |
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[ verb ] deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
Examples "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant" Used in print (E. Gellhorn, "Prolegomena to a theory of the emotions"...)A state of parasympathetic `` tuning '' of the hypothalamus induced experimentally causes not_only an increase in the parasympathetic reactivity this structure to direct and reflexly induced stimuli , but leads also to an autonomic reversal : a stimulus acting sympathetically under control_conditions elicits in this state of tuning a parasympathetic response ! Related terms |
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