| Definition/Meaning | Word/Phrase |
|---|
| any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way; primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success) |
aversion therapy
|
| behavior treatment with unpleasant stimuli connected to bad habits |
aversion therapy
|
| trancelike state with loss of voluntary motion and failure to react to stimuli |
catalepsy
|
| sensory receptor that responds to chemical stimuli |
chemoreceptor
|
| Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive incomplete objects as complete and to close or fill gaps and to perceive asymmetric stimuli as symmetric |
closure
,
law of closure
|
| form of chromesthesia in which experiences of color accompany auditory stimuli |
colored audition
,
colored hearing
|
| cognitive process whereby two or more stimuli are distinguished |
discrimination
,
secernment
|
| German physiologist who studied sensory responses to stimuli and is considered the father of psychophysics (1795-1878) |
E. H. Weber
,
Ernst Heinrich Weber
,
Weber
|
| any receptor that responds to stimuli inside the body |
enteroceptor
,
interoceptor
|
| sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body |
exteroception
|
| any receptor that responds to stimuli outside the body |
exteroceptor
|
| inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli |
inherent aptitude
,
instinct
|
| sensitivity to stimuli originating inside of the body |
interoception
|
| (psychophysics) the difference between two stimuli that (under properly controlled experimental conditions) is detected as often as it is undetected |
jnd
,
just-noticeable difference
|
| feeling caused by agreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling |
pleasantness
|
| special nerve endings in the muscles and tendons and other organs that respond to stimuli regarding the position and movement of the body |
proprioceptor
|
| branch of psychology concerned with quantitative relations between physical stimuli and their psychological effects |
psychophysics
|
| sensory stimuli, cell or nerve endings responding to |
receptor
|
| nerve ending responding to stimuli |
receptor
|
| mild comatose state; a coma from which the person can be roused by appropriate stimuli |
semicoma
|
