I'm confused about the internal/external stimulus???

Question

Stimulus: dog treat
Response: dog drooling

so, the environment is Internal??
and is this a external stimulus??
I'm so confused! I feel like crying....
I would be so happy if you guys helped me out.

Answer 1

This same question was answered by Dan about a year ago on Yahoo! answers. Here is his answer: "An example of an external stimulus is a painful prick (and any other stimulus that happens OUT side the organism ). The organism could respond by pulling away from the pain caused by the stimuli. An example of an internal stimulus is the feeling of hunger or thirst (or any other stimulus that happens IN side the organism). The organism could respond by eating or drinking."

Answer 2

You are right about the stimulus being the sight of the dog treat and the response being the dog drooling.

Internal and external refer to whether something is happening inside the dog's body or outside the dog's body.

You show the dog a treat. That's an external stimulus because the dog sees something outside its body in the environment.

The dog drools. That's an internal response because it happened inside the dog's body.

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If I see a piece of pie and start making more saliva, that's an external stimulus and an internal response.
However, if I think of a piece of pie and start salivating, that's an internal stimulus and an internal response.

Answer 3

Why would be the environment classified as "internal" in the first place? In your given example, the dog treat is not something found "internally", that is, inside your dog's tummy, right? So, the dog treat is an external stimulus, dog senses the treat via scent and sight, then sends signals to it's brain and interpreted as food, makes his tummy grumble, making him override his other senses because of his instinct for hunger and expressed as drooling. Get it? Most of the stimuli we experience is external (outside of our bodies or environmental factors).

Answer 4

the external stimulus is what is making the dog drool. so in this case Pavlov used the dog treat to elicit the drooling making the dog treat the external stimulus. The internal stimuli is the dogs brain. the dogs brain gets the feed back from the eyes and in return the brain makes the dog drool.

Answer 5

Internal - means happens inside the mind or body of the organism.
External - means it happens outside the organism.
Stimulus - something happens.
Response - something happens after the stimulus.

So the dog treat is the external stimulus (its outside the animal).
And drooling is the internal response (the animal is doing the drooling).

Answer 6

the dog treat is an external stimulus,

an internal stimulus would be like hormones in your blood stream causing your heart rate to increase.

i think, don't flame me if i'm wrong

Answer 7

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