WordNet
n. an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus [syn: reflex, instinctive reflex, innate reflex, inborn reflex, unconditioned reflex]
Usage examples of "physiological reaction".
Why does the CR, conditioned response, mysteriously change to a physiological reaction totally opposite to the UCR, the unconditioned response to heroin?
If the atrium were working, he could suppress that physiological reaction.
But this conditioned physiological reaction to the environment gradually starts to change on its own.
The Leader was glad he had cut off physiological reaction to the sight of humans, or else he might not have been able to endure the sight of this smiling bright-eyed human.
That's what caused the physiological reaction which started phase one.
I wonder idly if a male android has any similar physiological reaction.
Buckeye had once reproved him for being embarrassed by this trait, saying it appeared to be a purely physiological reaction, probably racial.
So much for my celebrated cast-iron gut, she thought wryly to herself, remembering the warnings everyone had given her about the normal physiological reaction to Cobra surgery.
Her family, if she had ever been insane enough to discuss it with them, would tell her it was a normal, physiological reaction.
But through the Force Kyp could feel her physiological reaction as nerve endings in her throat protested the intrusion of the homemade brew.
That wasn't his only physiological reaction, but it was the only one he cared to think about at the moment.
I supposed they might have been some unusual physiological reaction to the poison which I conjectured had been injected into her system through the small, livid puncture, also on her left side.