psychogalvanic response

Questions about psychogalvanic response

What does psychogalvanic response mean?

psychogalvanic response means "a change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety; can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body".

What is another word for psychogalvanic response?

Close synonyms include galvanic skin response, GSR, electrodermal response, electrical skin response, Fere phenomenon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is psychogalvanic response a common word?

psychogalvanic response is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.