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immobility

n. a condition in which an organism shows no signs of motion, as in death feigning or freezing behavior. This may occur in response to sudden stimuli that might be associated with a predator, or it may be elicited in a fear-conditioning study as a learned response to an aversively conditioned signal. —immobile adj.

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between-dimension consistency

between-dimension consistency

see cross-dimension attitude consistency.