Arousal

Word AROUSAL
Character 7
Hyphenation a rous al
Pronunciations /əˈɹaʊzəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Arousal"

What do we mean by arousal?

The act of arousing or the state of being aroused.

Sexual arousal.

A physiological and psychological state of being awake or reactive to stimuli, including elevated heart rate and blood pressure and a condition of sensory alertness, mobility and readiness to respond.

Arousal from sleep or hibernation.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Arousal

The word "arousal" in example sentences

Sessions involve watching pornographic movies featuring a young boy masturbating while the offender's sexual arousal is measured and punishment administered. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When arousal is too low, we become bored, and seek out activities to stimulate our minds; when arousal is too high, we seek to reduce or find something that will calm us down in some way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Arguments against violent media imagery promoting violent behaviour often actually support the idea: James Paul Gee promotes video games as very effective teaching tools and arousal is at the heart of his argument. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I think that's the first time the phrase arousal of the amygdala has ever been in the cable news. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping, Robert Sapolsky describes the way stress relates to memory: a little bit of arousal heightens learning, but long-term arousal eventually burns out memory. ❋ MD Julian Seifter (2010)

Whereas difficulties of objectively evaluating psychoanalytic hypotheses are well-documented, these approaches would predict that sexual arousal is an intrinsic response to homosexual stimuli, whereas Barlow’s (1986) theory would predict that sexual arousal to homosexual stimuli by homophobic individuals is a function of anxiety. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Chilies also stimulate the nervous system, accentuating the effects of arousal, which is very, very, very good for very, very, very good sex. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh yes, I had attended some birthday parties where the game of Post Office was played and I recall the arousal that happened in my pants but for sure God was watching and I better not let on so when my turn came I picked the cutest girl and departed with her to the post office room to deliver the stamps. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His arousal was a potent force beneath the black silk barely sheathing its powerful rigidity, and she felt her insides clench in anticipation of his possession. ❋ Bianchin, Helen (2006)

Today, most theories, particularly in cognitive science, involve incongruity resolution Freudian theories, usually called arousal-relief, or just relief theories, are still used by some nonscientists, as are disparagement theories. ❋ Chris (2004)

The scent of her arousal was a drug that threatened to destroy the grip he had on his own response. ❋ Jayne Ann Krentz (1996)

For the SAQ they did not define a sex act, leaving it to the respondent to understand what was being asked, but in the face-to-face interview they explicitly defined sexual activity as "mutually voluntary activity with another person that involves genital contact and sexual excitement or arousal, that is, feeling really turned on, even if intercourse or orgasm did not occur." ❋ Burress, David (1995)

Clumsiness on manual tasks results partly from the muscular tenseness that occurs in states of fear arousal, which is manifested by the stiffening of muscles all over the body and by muscular tremors. ❋ Leo Goldberger (1993)

A steady diet of TV violence keeps the heavy viewer in a semiagitated state of arousal, which is occasionally relieved somewhat by commercials and light comedy. ❋ KARL ALBRECHT (1979)

The failure of his NO/cGMP system, or so-called arousal function, his wife's obsession with conventional pornography, the makeshift institute where he had rediscovered desire as a by-product of architecture. ❋ Ballardian/Savoy Microfiction Competition Winners (2010)

Traditionally, the amygdala has been implicated in the processing of emotional stimuli and in the long-term retention of emotional events or images wherein activity is often suggested to reflect heightened physiological arousal, which is thought to mediate emotional learning via direct and indirect neural pathways subserving short and long-term memory ❋ Unknown (2008)

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