PSYC-281 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Classical Conditioning, Siamese Fighting Fish, Reflex Arc
1 Mar 2017
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Diagram the sequence of events in a reflex arc that. A reflex is a relatively simple, automatic response to a stimulus. A flexion response is designed to prepare for fight or flight given an underlies a flexion response when one"s hand touches a sharp object. When one"s hand touches a sharp object, receptors in the hand stimulate sensory neurons that carry a danger message toward the spinal cord where the interneurons receive the message and immediately pass it on to the motor neurons. And then the motor neurons then activate the muscles in the arm to pull the hand away. A reflex arc is a neural structure underlying some reflexes that consists of: define fixed action pattern. Give an example of a fixed action pattern and its releaser. A fixed action pattern is a fixed sequence of responses elicited by a specific stimulus. A sign stimulus or releaser is the specific stimulus that elicits a fixed action pattern.
