A body's response to ingesting medicine is one example of external stimuli. The nervous system allows an organism to respond quickly to changes in the internal or external environment. In perceptual psychology, a stimulus is an energy change (e.g., light or sound) which is registered by the senses (e.g., vision, hearing, taste, etc.) Click to see full answer. It originates from outside... See full answer below. Which of the following is an example of a plant responding to the external stimulus of gravity? Some examples of external stimuli: visual stimuli, like the screen in front of you; click of the keys; touch stimuli, like the feel of the keys under your fingertips. How do plants respond to external stimuli? Internal Stimuli are feeling procured inside of you, for instance hunger, thirst, sleepiness, ect. Proximal stimuli is the physical neural transduction of signal that allows perception.