Week 10 Responses

Response to Aja

Generically, the term behavior refers to the activity of organisms (Animals, including man), which hold exchange with the environment. This activity includes movements of striated muscles and smooth muscles, and secretion of glands. In everyday language, often refer to behaviors involving skeletal muscle and voluntary behaviors, while call involuntary those involving smooth muscle and glands. In a more rigorous language, these terms are avoided, and we talk about behaviors operant and respondent (or reflections). In responding behavior, one response is elicited, caused by an antecedent stimulus: the food in the mouth (stimulus antecedent) elicits salivation (response), a ...