Can you give an example of a reflex response that can be modified by the brain?
When you pick up a hot plate, but instead of dropping it, you keep holding it to have your food
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What can the reflex response of holding your food instead of dropping it, be overridden by?
A neurone between the brain (CNS) and motor neurone of the reflex arc
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Can reflex responses by learned?
Yes
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What is it called when a stimulus causes a particular reflex response, but an animal learns to produce the same response to a new (secondary) stimulus?
Conditioning - the new reflex is called a conditioned reflex
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Can you give an example of a conditioned reflex?
Pavlov's Dogs
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Can you explain 'Pavlov's Dogs'?
Pavlov's dogs salivate when smell food - simple reflex in response to primary stimulus (smell of food) . He rang a bell before giving them food and they salivated when bell rang, even if no food. Dogs responded to secondary stimulus (bell)
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In a conditioned reflex, the final response has no direct connection to what?
The secondary stimulus
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What can conditioned reflexes improve?
An animal's chance of survival
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Can you give an example of when a conditioned reflex can increase an animal's chance of survival?
A bird sees bright bug, eats bug then feels ill, bird associates bright colour with illness and next time avoids that colour bug
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Can you give an example of a reflex response that can be modified by the brain?
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When you pick up a hot plate, but instead of dropping it, you keep holding it to have your food
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What can the reflex response of holding your food instead of dropping it, be overridden by?
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Can reflex responses by learned?
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What is it called when a stimulus causes a particular reflex response, but an animal learns to produce the same response to a new (secondary) stimulus?
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