Download Elicited Behavior Chapter 2 pp. 32-53 and the internet if you can`t

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Knapp Study Guide 4
Elicited Behavior
Chapter 2 pp. 32-53 and the internet if you can't find answers in the text.
1. What does it mean for behavior to be elicited?
2. What are eliciting stimuli?
3. What do reflexes have to do with elicited behavior?
4. What three neurons are involved in a simple reflex?
5. How can other neurons be involved in the production of a reflex?
6. What are modal action patterns and why are they called modal action patterns?
7. What is a releasing stimulus?
8. How are releasing stimuli identified?
9. What happens when the releasing stimulus is exaggerated?
10. What are appetitive and consummatory behaviors and what do they have to do with reflexes?
Which type of behavior is more reflexive?
11. Imagine that some releasing stimulus is presented repeatedly. There are three potential things that
might occur to the corresponding response. What are these three things?
12. What is habituation?
13. What is sensitization?
14. Why might habituation and sensitization be considered to be adaptive?
15. What is response fatigue?
16. What is sensory adaptation?
17. Where in the reflex arc do habituation, response fatigue, and sensory adaptation occur?
18. How can one tell the difference between habituation, sensory adaptation, and response fatigue?