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startle reaction — ▪ psychology also called Startle Pattern, an extremely rapid psychophysiological response of an organism to a sudden and unexpected stimulus such as a loud sound or a blinding flash of light. In human beings it is characterized by… … Universalium
startle reaction — noun a complicated involuntary reaction to a sudden unexpected stimulus (especially a loud noise); involves flexion of most skeletal muscles and a variety of visceral reactions • Syn: ↑startle response • Hypernyms: ↑startle, ↑jump, ↑start * * *… … Useful english dictionary
startle response — noun a complicated involuntary reaction to a sudden unexpected stimulus (especially a loud noise); involves flexion of most skeletal muscles and a variety of visceral reactions • Syn: ↑startle reaction • Hypernyms: ↑startle, ↑jump, ↑start * * *… … Useful english dictionary
Alexander Technique — The Alexander Technique is a discipline with a focus on the self perception of movement and is aimed at alleviating pain, promoting rehabilitation, improving breathing, and decreasing stage fright, as well as improving other conditions related to … Wikipedia
Alexander technique — The Alexander Technique teaches the ability to improve physical postural habits, particularly those that have become ingrained and conditioned responses. The technique can improve performance, self observation and impulse control and relieve… … Wikipedia
Eric Patrick — is an independent filmmaker, freelance animator, Guggenheim fellow, musician, and educator. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Radio TV Film program at Northwestern University. [ [http://commweb.soc.northwestern.edu/2006faculty/ School … Wikipedia
Mauthner cell — The Mauthner Cells are a pair of big and easily identifiable neurons (one for each half of the body) located in the rhombomere 4 of the hindbrain in fish and amphibians that are responsible for a very fast escape reflex (in the majority of… … Wikipedia
syndrome — The aggregate of symptoms and signs associated with any morbid process, and constituting together the picture of the disease. SEE ALSO: disease. [G. s., a running together, tumultuous concourse; (in med.) a concurrence of symptoms, fr. syn,… … Medical dictionary
animal learning — ▪ zoology Introduction the alternation of behaviour as a result of individual experience. When an organism can perceive and change its behaviour, it is said to learn. That animals can learn seems to go without saying. The cat that… … Universalium
Domestic violence — Domestic disturbance redirects here. For the 2001 film, see Domestic Disturbance. Domestic violence Classification and external resources eMedicine article/805546 MeSH … Wikipedia
