One of the Functional Characteristics of Life Is Excitability or Responsiveness

question 62

Multiple Choice

One of the functional characteristics of life is excitability or responsiveness. This refers to _.

• A) indigestible food residues stimulating the excretory system
• B) sensing changes in the environment and then reacting or responding to them
• C) the necessity for all organisms to reproduce
• D) the nervous system causing all living things to sometimes experience anger

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Definitions:

Conditioned Emotional Response

A type of learned response in which an emotional reaction is elicited by a previously neutral stimulus through conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

The process of learning through which two stimuli are continually paired; a reaction that starts out being elicited by the second stimulus is in the end prompted by the sole presentation of the first stimulus.

Classical Conditioning

A teaching technique involving the connection between a stimulus from the surroundings and one that happens naturally.

US Immediately Follows CS

In classical conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus consistently and immediately follows the conditioned stimulus, establishing an association.