Orienting Response
When an animal experiences and responses to novelty in its environment, this behavior is called an “orienting response”. These instinctive responses are as primitive as the reptilian brain that organizes them.
They allow an animal to respond fluidly to an ever changing environment. Also humans, possess these coordinated patterns of muscle movements and perceptional awareness.
Despite our differences from the lizard and the lion, new sounds, smells, and movements in our surroundings evoke the same basic response patterns in us.
Orienting responses are constantly merging into one another and adapting to allow for a range of reactions and choices.
The process of determining where and what it is, whether it is dangerous or desirable happens first in our sub conscious.
