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abient, a. Psychol.|ˈæbɪənt|
[ad. L. abiens, abient- pres. pple. of abīre to depart: see -ent.]
Exhibiting, involving, or pertaining to a tendency to avoid or withdraw from 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. 1946P. M. Symonds Dynamics Human Adjustment ii. 32 Abient..drives are those which secure riddance of the stimulus by avoiding [it]. 1951Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XLII. 114 [Social] attitudes, in this context, are defined as verbal responses to statements implying adient or abient reactive patterns towards the issues..defined. 1977M. L. Hutt Hutt Adaptation of Bender-Gestalt Test (ed. 3) vi. 158 Abient individuals tend to block out new experiences and profit less from such exposures. 1977Jrnl. Personality Assessment XLI. 492 The delinquent group was more abient than normal children.
So ˈabience 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. 1977M. L. Hutt Hutt Adaptation of Bender-Gestalt Test (ed. 3) vi. 158 Field dependence..may also be related to perceptual abience. |