ELECTRICAL SKIN RESPONSE
Dictionary entry overview: What does electrical skin response mean? • ELECTRICAL SKIN RESPONSE (noun)
The noun ELECTRICAL SKIN 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: ELECTRICAL SKIN RESPONSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ELECTRICAL SKIN RESPONSE (noun)
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 ("electrical skin response" is a kind of...):
reaction; response (a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some foregoing stimulus or agent)
Holonyms ("electrical skin response" is a part of...):
lie detector (a polygraph that records bodily changes sometimes associated with lying)
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