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− | | + | <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of [[Receptivity]], follow [http://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Receptivity this link].</center> |
| ==Pronunciation== | | ==Pronunciation== |
| ri-sep-tiv | | ri-sep-tiv |
| ==Adjective== | | ==Adjective== |
− | 1. having the [[quality]] of receiving, taking in, or admitting. | + | *1. having the [[quality]] of receiving, taking in, or admitting. |
− | | + | *2. able or quick to receive [[knowledge]], [[ideas]], etc.: a receptive [[mind]]. |
− | 2. able or quick to receive [[knowledge]], [[ideas]], etc.: a receptive [[mind]]. | + | *3. willing or inclined to receive suggestions, offers, etc., with favor: a receptive [[listener]]. |
− | | + | *4. of or pertaining to reception or receptors: a receptive end organ. |
− | 3. willing or inclined to receive suggestions, offers, etc., with favor: a receptive [[listener]]. | + | *5. (in [[language]] learning) of or pertaining to the language skills of listening and reading (opposed to productive ). |
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− | 4. of or pertaining to reception or receptors: a receptive end organ. | |
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− | 5. (in [[language]] learning) of or pertaining to the language skills of listening and reading (opposed to productive ). | |
| ==Origin== | | ==Origin== |
| 1540–50; < ML receptīvus. See reception, -ive | | 1540–50; < ML receptīvus. See reception, -ive |
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| ==Related forms== | | ==Related forms== |
− | re⋅cep⋅tive⋅ly, adverb | + | *re⋅cep⋅tive⋅ly, adverb |
− | re⋅cep⋅tiv⋅i⋅ty [ree-sep-tiv-i-tee] Show IPA , re⋅cep⋅tive⋅ness, noun | + | *re⋅cep⋅tiv⋅i⋅ty [ree-sep-tiv-i-tee] Show IPA , re⋅cep⋅tive⋅ness, noun |
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| ==Synonyms== | | ==Synonyms== |
| 3. amenable, [[hospitality|hospitable]], responsive, open. | | 3. amenable, [[hospitality|hospitable]], responsive, open. |
| + | ==Description== |
| + | ===Receptivity and suggestibility=== |
| + | ''Thought'' [[process]]es on the edge of sleep tend to differ radically from those of ordinary wakefulness. Hypnagogia may involve a “loosening of [[ego]] boundaries ... openness, sensitivity, internalization-subjectification of the physical and mental environment ([[empathy]]) and diffuse-absorbed attention,”[40] Hypnagogic cognition, in comparison with that of normal, alert wakefulness, is characterised by heightened suggestibility,[41] illogic and a fluid association of [[ideas]]. Subjects are more receptive in the hypnagogic state to suggestion from an experimenter than at other times, and readily incorporate external stimuli into hypnagogic trains of thought and subsequent [[dream]]s. This receptivity has a physiological parallel; EEG readings show elevated responsiveness to sound around the onset of sleep.[42] |
| + | ===Autosymbolism=== |
| + | [[Herbert Silberer]] described a process he called autosymbolism, whereby hypnagogic [[hallucination]]s seem to represent, without repression or [[censorship]], whatever one is thinking at the time, turning abstract ideas into a concrete image, which may be perceived as an apt and succinct representation thereof.[43] |
| + | ===]Insight=== |
| + | This [[process]] can even lead to genuine [[insight]] into a problem, a well known example being the story of [[August Kekulé]]’s [[discovery]] of the [[structure]] of benzene. Similarly, the teenaged Karl Gauss obtained an insight during a hypnagogic reverie into how to construct a 17-sided polygon. Many other artists, writers, scientists and inventors – including Beethoven, Richard Wagner, Walter Scott, Thomas Edison and Isaac Newton – have credited hypnagogia and related states with enhancing their [[creativity]].[44] According to himself, Keith Richards wrote the Rolling Stones' biggest hit "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" while sleeping. He has stated that he went to bed with a tape recorder on the bedside table, and when he woke up the tape was full with mumbling and half-singing, mixed with some snoring. |
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| + | A widely cited instance of what could well be this [[phenomenon]] is the story of the composition of the Devil's Trill violin sonata by Giuseppe Tartini. Tartini dreamt that the [[devil]] appeared at the end of his bed and played the violin with otherwordly mastery. Tartini woke and immediately began writing the [[virtuoso]] [[music]] down, though managed only to transcribe what he painfully felt to be a massively inferior version of what he had heard in his sleep; incidentally, such loss of [[memory]] of the dreamt events is a common circumstance of [[dream]]s. |
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| [[Category: General Reference]] | | [[Category: General Reference]] |
| + | [[Category: Psychology]] |
| + | [[Category: Religion]] |