Introduction Among the works of john Dewey, The reflex arc concept has attracted much attention among people who have been studying psychology. The argument in his reflex arc concept was meant to bring more understanding on how people learn from the interaction with environment and how the process of the learning takes place. His argument described the relationship between what captures the attention of a human being before he acts (stimulus) and the act that follows (response). Understanding of the reflex act concept brought about what is today commonly referred to as functionalism, a term that will be described later in this paper. (Buckley, 2005) The reflex arc concept in psychology The reflex arc concept when properly understood simplifies the studies in the field of psychology. The reflex arc concept deals with the sensory stimulus involving observable things in terms of seeing and hearing, the sensory nervous system which involves the mechanism through which message is passed through the body system and motor discharge which enable the person to act in the proper way. The concept therefore explains a set of teamwork involving coordination of various parts like mind, eyes, hands and legs or any other body part that enables the person to respond in a particular way after receiving any information. These parts; the sensory stimulus, the system connecting the central nervous system and motor discharge are not complete systems in themselves but function as a team sharing the labor in a single whole that is now referred to as a reflex arc. There exists coordination of these parts to bring about sensation of the stimulus which is followed by reasoning and the end result is the right movement. (Strauss, 2003) Reflex arc concept is well illustrated using the child and candle experiment where ordinarily one would assume that, when a child approaches a candle and gets burnt, it is the light that starts the whole process by first capturing the attention of the child. Although this is basically the practical method of looking at it, the reflex arc concept represents the process in a different way because it argues that the start of the process is not the candle but the mind process in the child that makes him/her first have the interest in looking at the flame. The interpretation of this argument is that the primary process is the movement of the head and the eyes before the candle is noticed while sensation of the candle is the secondary stimulus. The body movement especially around the head as well as the eye muscle largely determines the extent of the quality of what the person has experienced. This implies that the beginning of the whole experience is act of looking and seeing but not the sensation of the light by the child. (Parry, 2002) From the above perspective, sensing and the resulting movement form the action that the child undertake after first making the effort of looking towards the direction of the flame. The primary looking thereafter stimulates another act of the child reaching the candle which is a confirmation that there is coordination between the two actions which aimed at forming more complex results. To be specific, the success in the work of the hand largely depends on its control and also its stimulation by the act of looking. When the child gets burnt, it becomes another sensory motor coordination not just a mere sensation but a completion of the coordination of the eye to hand that had already taken place. From the whole experience the child learns and also gains the ability in avoiding a similar experience in future. (Taylor, 2000) In this case the flame takes the role of the sensor while the mind of the child undergoes the process that leads to the child reaching the flame which in this case is the response. The burning of the child becomes another sensor followed by a process in the mind and finally withdrawal of the hand which is the last response. This path followed by the impulse from the start of the process to the end is referred to as reflex arc. According to Dewey, the general reflex arc in the nervous system of a human being comprises of 5 main parts. The receptor organ has the role of receiving the stimulus which is relayed to the central nervous system which comprises the spinal cord by some chemicals in the nerves. The stimulus is further passed on through the CNS by similar chemicals throughout the spinal cord which is later followed by relay of the stimulus out of the central nervous system through efferent neuron. The message is finally delivered to effectors’ organ such as hand through motor neuron. (Shibutani, 2004) How reflex act concept guide people to adapt to environment Reflex arc concept indicated that in all stages of learning, there is strengthening which occurs as a gradual process and this is attributed by the experience that the human being is going through out of the association between the stimulus and response. Complex behaviors including language are built from a series of basic connections brought about by a chain of actions in the surrounding environment over time. Sequences in a certain behavior therefore need to be planned and well organized in a way that a person can easily follow starting with the most simple behaviors to the more complex behavior depending on which behavior in intended