What Is Hemostasis

question 6

Multiple Choice

What is hemostasis?

• A) the maintenance of relatively stable conditions in the internal environment
• B) the prevention or stoppage of blood loss
• C) a disease in which blood clot formation is impaired
• D) a protein inside red blood cells that binds oxygen with high affinity
• E) the set point for normal arterial blood pressure

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Definitions:

Conditioned Response

A learned response to a previously neutral stimulus that has become associated with an unconditioned stimulus through conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Learned Reaction

A behavior or response that has been acquired through experience or conditioning.

Learning

The process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences through study, experience, or teaching.