unconditioned response

British  

noun

1. Also called (esp formerly): unconditioned reflex.  a reflex action innately elicited by a stimulus without the intervention of any learning process Compare conditioned response

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Example Sentences

And they reply to injustice and repression not by resistance or retaliation, but with an utterly new, unconditioned response that leaves the reader lightheaded, transcending even that which we value as “freedom.”

From New York Times

Note that most English-language textbooks use the terms “unconditioned stimulus,” “unconditioned response,” and so on.

From Scientific American

The authors note that scent-rubbing is an unconditioned response in wolves, which means that it's an instinct, more or less, and they submit that wolves have been observed to luxuriate among the pungent, nostril-pinching stews of everything from detached body parts to insect repellent to rotten fruit and cigar ashes.

From Slate