Question

You are driving to school when suddenly an ambulance rushes past you with its sirens blartng, shocking you so much that you fear that you might lose control of your car. A minute later, you hear strens in the distance and increase your vigilance be prepared for another emergency vehide on the road. What change has come over your normal reaction to sirens?

a. sensitization
b. habituation
c. Hebbian learning
d. fight-or-flight response

Answer 1

a. sensitization

Step-by-step explanation:

Sensitization, is a term in psychology, that describes a non-associative learning process in which there is strengthening of a neurological response to a stimulus due to the response to a secondary stimulus.

An obvious example, is if a loud sound is suddenly heard by an individual, such person may startle at that sound. If a shock is given following the sound, then the next time that particular sound occurs, the individual will subsequently react even more strongly to the particular sound.

Hence, in this case, the change that has come over my normal reaction to sirens is sensitization.