BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
THE NERVOUS AND ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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you hear screaming
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a loud noise like thunder
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feeling a spider crawling on your back
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all of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Example of a stimulus and a response: If you accidentally touch a hot object, you automatically withdraw your hand. The heat of the hot object is the stimulus and you, withdrawing your hand is the response to the stimulus.
Detailed explanation-2: -A stimulus is anything that can trigger a physical or behavioral change. The plural of stimulus is stimuli. Stimuli can be external or internal. An example of external stimuli is your body responding to a medicine. An example of internal stimuli is your vital signs changing due to a change in the body.
Detailed explanation-3: -The external stimulus includes touch and pain, vision, smell, taste, sound, and balance (equilibrium). These sensory stimuli are activated by external changes. Pain and touch: Pain is the stimulus that can cause a major response from the body. Pain can also change the behavior of the organism.
Detailed explanation-4: -excited by three types of stimuli-mechanical, thermal, and chemical; some endings respond primarily to one type of stimulation, whereas other endings can detect all types.