Draws out (response) or evokes

Usage examples of elicits.

It often elicits imagination, fantasy and play as well as true recollections, with neither patient nor therapist able to distinguish the one from the other.

This elicits the same emotive intensity as in regression or in Mack's abductee hypnosis.

Even in a vacuum, in the total absence of electricity, or even matter, a changing magnetic field, he proposed, elicits an electric field and vice versa.

There are many conceivable behavioral changes resulting from such extirpations that might not be immediately obvious to the casual scientist but that might be of considerable significance to the rat-such as the amount of post-extirpation interest an attractive rat of the opposite sex now elicits, or the degree of disinterest now evinced by the presence of a stalking cat.

A small sting on Ms cheek elicits a fast reflexive slap from Ms right hand.

Pairing of a weak shock to the mantle (conditioning stimulus) with the strong shock to the tail strengthens the pathway from the mantle, so that a weak mantle shock now elicits the gill withdrawal, whereas weak shocks to the siphon are unstrengthened and still do not elicit withdrawal.