Question

You are driving to school when suddenly an ambulance rushes past you with its sirens blaring, so you quickly pull your car to the side of the road. A few minutes later, when you hear sirens in the distance, you get ready to quickly pull the car over again. You have learned to respond quickly to the sirens because of

Answer 1

Answer:

Sensitization.

Explanation:

Sensitization is a non-associative learning process that occurs after neurogenic inflammation when neurons become more responsive to both nociceptive and non-nociceptive stimuli, in which repeated administration of a stimulus results in the progressive amplification of a response. Sensitization often is characterized by increase in magnitude of response to a whole class of stimuli in addition to the one that is repeated, as well as expansion of receptive field, and emergence of spontaneous activity.