PSYC 2330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Drug Tolerance, Interneuron, Reflex Arc

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2330
• Professor: Julia Wreford

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Nature of elicited behavior: all animals whether single cell or humans react to events in their environment, much of behavior is elicited. Two closely related events: an eliciting stimulus and a corresponding response o. Stimulus and response are linked response rarely occurs without the stimulus. Simple reflexes are mediated by three neurons o. Noted as the reflex arc represents the fewest neural connections needed for reflex action. Response sequences that are typical of a particular species. Same stimulus will have different effects in the same species of animals due to physiological states and recent actions. Eliciting stimuli for modal action patterns: noises and appearance of certain animals features can elicit different responses in their younglings. Sign stimulus has to be identified in order to produce a response (releasing stimulus: also used to detect danger, both children and adults detect snakes faster than flowers or frogs.