PSYCHOGALVANIC RESPONSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does psychogalvanic response mean? 

• PSYCHOGALVANIC RESPONSE (noun)
  The noun PSYCHOGALVANIC RESPONSE has 1 sense:

1. a change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body

  Familiarity information: PSYCHOGALVANIC RESPONSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PSYCHOGALVANIC RESPONSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

electrical skin response; electrodermal response; Fere phenomenon; galvanic skin response; GSR; psychogalvanic response; Tarchanoff phenomenon

Hypernyms ("psychogalvanic response" is a kind of...):

reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent)

Holonyms ("psychogalvanic response" is a part of...):

lie detector (a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying)