The phrase "a reflexive response" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an automatic or instinctive reaction to a stimulus or situation.
Example: "When faced with danger, a reflexive response often occurs without conscious thought."
Alternatives: "an automatic reaction" or "an instinctive reply".
A reflexive response can make it easy to pull a trigger accidentally, he said.
The rest was a reflexive response to Mrs. Kagan herself, all these years later.
The movie is completely devoid of the protective cynicism that is now a reflexive response to the term "the '60s".
Treating chronic amplified pain is far different from treating acute pain, which is a reflexive response designed to protect the body from further danger, Harrison says.
Or even more egregious, a "new opium" of the masses, a Christian baptism of the meat grinder, or a reflexive response to latent colonial inferiority.
Americans, even those who generally support government intervention in our daily lives, have a reflexive response to being told what to do, and it's not a positive one.
Interestingly, the female macaques were more likely to experience a response when copulating with a male who lived higher-up in their monkey dominance hierarchy, suggesting that there is a social, not just physiological, component to this, not simply a reflexive responses to sexual stimulation.
In other words, grooming evolved as a kind of precautionary, preventative measure rather than as an an immediate, reflexive response to skin irritation.
When touch occurs during whisking, a fast reflexive response, termed a touch-induced pump (TIP), may be triggered.
In theory, altered sensory information arising from mechanoreceptors within damaged knee joint structures results in an ongoing reflexive response causing a reduction in spinal reflex excitability [ 6].
In the midst of a global authoritarian backlash and a dominant, reflexive, response of states to challenge violence with more violence, nonviolent resistance offers a serious alternative.
