The phrase "a primitive response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a basic or instinctual reaction to a situation, often in psychological or behavioral contexts.
Example: "In stressful situations, individuals may exhibit a primitive response, acting on instinct rather than rational thought."
Alternatives: "a basic reaction" or "an instinctive response".
Blame is a primitive response.
But mostly it is a primitive response where the emotion precedes the thought process, and this is true of the Suarez case, Dr Fawcett believes.
Dr Silver said: "This is a primitive response that has been kept in the spinal cord for emergencies, like gasping and screaming in response to danger". Although the researchers say the movements they saw resembled breathing, it's not clear yet if it would be enough to sustain life.
The ASR is a primitive response based on neural circuits in the lower brainstem, which is elicited by a sudden loud sound (Basavaraj & Yan 2012).
The three remaining components are 'concealability' (whether an illness can be hidden from others), 'disruptiveness' (whether it disrupts usual interactions), and 'aesthetics' (described as a primitive response by the perceiver to a non-concealable mark that makes the person less 'pleasing on the eye').
In the short term, following a currency wobble over the summer, the government has resorted to a more primitive response, hiking taxes and imposing quotas on gold imports.
The brain responds to this "reward" by developing a very strong primitive response which is nicotine addiction.
On the other hand, arousal may be a less specific, more primitive response, prioritising orienting of attention and preparation for action, and so may be more non-cognitive than many (if not all) of the other components of our emotional experiences.
"Every loss of a breast inevitably reawakens this primitive response, reviving earlier dramas of self-abasement, sacrifice and submission to punishment...
The world becomes a place in which social trust is possible, and the early instincts that you come to have, when presented with the faces and bodies of conspecifics, cause you, later on, to have as your most primitive response pattern an expectation that, if there's no evidence to the contrary, that conspecific is going to be responsive to your honest and expressed needs.
The instinct and even enthusiasm for gardening thus appear to arise from some primitive response to nature, engendering a wish to produce growth and harmony in a creative partnership with it.
