social stimulus
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsocialandstimulus
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social
adjective
uk/ˈsəʊ.ʃəl/us/ˈsoʊ.ʃəl/
relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and that happen during the time when you are ...
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stimulus
noun[C]
uk/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/us/ˈstɪm.jə.ləs/
something that causes growth ...
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(Definition ofsocialandstimulusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thesocialstimulusthat is being used is a "stare" from a human stranger.
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This finding suggests that when attention is unconstrained, adolescents may be more sensitive to the emotional properties of asocialstimulus.
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Physical appearance is an especially powerfulsocialstimulusfor children and adolescents.
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Active volitional orienting to asocialstimulus, such as head turning when name is called, typically emerges by 5-7 months of age.
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In particular, during formation of the attachment relationship, the face of the primary caregiver is likely the most significantsocialstimulusfor the child.
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This node also modulates various autonomic and cognitive processes (such as cardiovascular control and attention allocation) in order to organize the systemic response to thesocialstimulus.
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The basis of reciprocal determinism should transform individual behavior by allowing subjective thought processes transparency when contrasted with cognitive, environmental, and externalsocialstimulusevents.
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There he found not only scientific sympathy, but thesocialstimuluswhich his vigorous and healthy mind eagerly craved.
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Reciprocal determinism is the idea that behavior is controlled or determined by the individual, through cognitive processes, and by the environment, through externalsocialstimulusevents.
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Perceptual fine-tuning of such stimuli and the formation of representations of social stimuli are impeded.
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Mesial temporal neurons in the macaque monkey with responses selective for aspects of social stimuli.
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The heart rate response in question was seen only for social stimuli.
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In the present study we assess the third component, empathy, by children's self-repor ts of affective response to social stimuli.
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The paradigmatic study presents social stimuli directly to participants, thus bypassing relevance and availability completely, and largely bypassing the task of cue detection.
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Additionally, results indicate a manner in which externalizing versus nonexternalizing adolescents vary in their valuations of aggressive responses to ambiguously provocative social stimuli.
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This might result in a lack of attention to social stimuli, including faces, thereby creating a kind of deprivation of normal learning experiences with faces.
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This finding brings with it the hypothesis that people with autism respond to social stimuli using the same processes and mechanisms as for nonsocial stimuli.
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