单词 | perseverate |
释义 | perseveratev. 1. intransitive. To exhibit perseveration; (Psychology) to repeat or continue a response after the cessation of the original stimulus. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > continuation of response > repeat [verb (intransitive)] perseverate1912 1912 F. Aveling On Consciousness of Universal & Individual 232 The sensorial part of the subject content perseverates and conflues over into the predicate concept. 1927 C. E. Spearman Abilities of Man xvii. 306 A tendency for mental processes to have a certain lag or inertia and in this meaning to ‘perseverate’. 1976 J. R. Smythies & L. Corbett Psychiatry Students of Med. vii. 105 He may be talkative but difficult to understand, and perseverates—that is replies to questions with responses appropriate to previous questions. 1993 M. Tem & N. Holder Making Love x. 108 He laughed, got caught up in the sound and perseverated with it for a while. 2. transitive. Psychology and Physiology. To cause perseveration of (a response). ΚΠ 1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 773/1 Once an idea of postural set or of simple motor action is present in consciousness, the patients sometimes find their attention fixed on it in a way which tends to make them perseverate that activity. 1990 Brain 113 1435 The so-called velocity storage element [is] a hypothetical neural circuit that perseverates the eye movement response to both vestibular and optokinetic stimulation. Derivatives perˈseverating adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > experimental psychology > stimulus-response > response > continuation of response > [adjective] perseverating1910 perseverative1910 1910 E. Jones in Rev. Neurol. & Psychiatry Nov. 657 The perseverating influence of this last reaction is also to be noticed in the next succeeding one. 1995 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 82 221/1 This notion of perseverating paradigms owes something to a third class of policy models, the ‘state-centered’ approach. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1910 |
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