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adient, a. Psychol.|ˈædɪənt|
[ad. L. adiens, adient- pres. pple. of adīre to approach: see -ent.]
Exhibiting, involving, or pertaining to a tendency to seek out or maximize the impact of a stimulus.
1931E. B. Holt Animal Drive & Learning Process I. vii. 41 Since there is no satisfactory adjective already in use to characterize these responses which give the organism more of the stimulus, I shall adopt the very apt term adient, which has been kindly suggested by Prof. H. C. Warren. The immediate effect of an adient response..is to give the organism more of the stimulus that elicits the response; and of its opposite, the avoidance or abient response, the immediate effect is to give the organism less of the exciting stimulus. 1938Katz & Schanck Social Psychol. ii. viii. 227 Although adient responses are the normal reactions which children acquire to most objects in their environment, children also learn to avoid or withdraw from certain harmful stimuli. 1946P. M. Symonds Dynamics Human Adjustment ii. 32 Adient..drives are those which are reduced by going toward the stimulus or bringing the stimulus toward oneself. 1969M. L. Hutt Hutt Adaptation of Bender-Gestalt Test (ed. 2) vii. 130 Individuals differ in the degree to which they are..receptive to perceptual stimulation (adient). 1973Jrnl. Personality Assessment XXXVII. 78 Alcoholics tend to be more adient and environmentally focused than the other groups.
So ˈadience n.
1931E. B. Holt Animal Drive & Learning Process xv. 137 If..an object for which it has a pronounced adience happens to stimulate the senses of a restless animal, this adience will be re-enforced by the (random) annoyer:..thus abience from the mild annoyer and adience to some other stimulus will become one act. 1985Jrnl. Clin. Psychol. XLI. 506 The two psychologists who scored the BGT protocols did so by applying the Hutt Psychopathology Scale and the complete Hutt Adience-Abience Scale. |