Sentence examples for psychological stimulation from inspiring English sources

The amount of blood entering the penis can be increased by physical or psychological stimulation.

The welfare questionnaire included questions relating to physical health, stress and coping, satisfaction with social relationships, psychological stimulation, and the display of positive and negative welfare indicators.

Sports psychologist Dr Victor Thompson noted: "Getting outdoors is vital for maximising our quality of life and as an antidote to our urban, stressful environments … A life on the sofa is incomprehensible to adrenaline junkies who get the physical and psychological stimulation that comes with the high of extreme sports".

Conversely, despite anxiety or prospects of non-acceptance, how teachers responded to pupils' attainment in school 'entry-tests' provided psychological stimulation for some pupils, enhancing self-esteem and pupils' perceptions about education.

"Psychological stimulation, such as fantasy, increases arousal while also distracting from the inhibitors.

This can be related to occlusion or can be caused entirely by psychological stimulation.

One explanation is that low ESCS often goes together with low domestic intellectual and socio-psychological stimulation (Iverson and Walberg 1982).

During induced psychological anticipation stimulation, the PFC was significantly activated both in the control and GERD groups.

HCL: Intraesophageal acid infusion; PSY: psychological anticipation stimulation ROI: Regions of interesting BA: Brodmann area S: side L: Left side R: Right side B: Bi-side x, y, z: Coordinate in Talaraich HCL: Intraesophageal acid infusion; PSY: psychological anticipation stimulation; TR: repetition time Δ F values of One-Way ANOVA or t value of student t-test.

In the current study, we analyzed characteristics of visceral hypersensitivity among four subgroups of GERD, including RE, NERD+, NERD-SI+ and NERD-SI groups and assessed the different cerebral effects of induced psychological anticipation stimulation on these four groups as compared with controls.

Self-reported and genital arousal had to be measured in response to some form of psychological sexual stimulation, including self-generated or guided sexual fantasy, exposure to visual sexual stimuli (pictures or film, with or without audio accompaniment), or descriptions of sexual interactions either read by the participant or presented as an audio recording.