A Patient Has Suffered a Spinal Cord Injury, Affecting Spinal

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Essay

A patient has suffered a spinal cord injury, affecting spinal nerves L1 and L2. What sympathetic symptoms are affected?

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Definitions:

Stimulus Generalization

The process by which a conditioned response is triggered by stimuli that are similar but not identical to the original conditioned stimulus.

Negative Avoidance

A learning process where actions are taken to prevent an unpleasant outcome or stimuli.

Stimulus Discrimination

The learned ability to differentiate between similar stimuli and respond only to the specific stimulus conditioned.

Instinctive Drift

The tendency for animals to revert to instinctual behaviors, overriding learned behaviors from operant conditioning.