disinhibitv.
/dɪsɪnˈhɪbɪt/ Psychology.
transitive. To cause the release of (a response that has been habituated, or one that has been learnt and then extinguished); also, to disable the inhibitory mechanism of. More generally, to release from (emotional) inhibitions, esp. temporarily; to make less inhibited. Also absol. or intransitive.
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1927 G. V. Anrep tr. Pavlov Conditioned Reflexes vi. 99 The extraneous stimulus acting on the positive phase of the reflex inhibits, and acting on the negative phase dis-inhibits.
1931 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 38 The interference of generalization can be restored by the action of ‘extra stimuli’ in temporarily weakening (disinhibiting) the internal inhibition.
1935 Psychol. Bull. 32 677 This procedure was continued until each rat had been disinhibited eight times.
1964 J. Z. Young Model of Brain iv. 52 The effect of a particular demand would thus be to disinhibit the relevant enzyme system.
1974 K. Clark Another Part of Wood iii. 100 As well as dis-inhibiting me he educated me.
1977 Lancet 5 Feb. 313/1 The social obtruders (i.e. the incontinent, wandering, nocturnally disturbed, noisy, aggressive, or sexually disinhibited) are a subgroup of ‘organic’ patients on quite another social dimension.
1989 Jrnl. Psychopharmacol. 3 86 The factors which determine whether propranolol disinhibits non-rewarded responding or whether it has the opposite effect are obscure.
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