Apply Knowledge And Skill - Chapter One

Question 1

What are the brain and nervous system responsible for?

Answer 1

Behaviour and cognitive processes

Question 2

What is the peripheral nervous system composed of?

Answer 2

Somatic and autonomic nervous systems

Question 3

What is the main function of the spinal cord?

Answer 3

Transmit neural impulses to and from the brain

Question 4

What is the role of the autonomic nervous system? (2)

Answer 4

Maintains homeostasis

Relays information between muscles that control organs and glands and CNS

Question 5

Sam gets a shock fright. Name a physiological change and what nervous system is dominant

Answer 5

• increased heart rate

- sympathetic division of autonomic nervous system

Question 6

What does the parasympathetic division of the autonomic nervous system do?

Answer 6

Dominates bodily symptoms during times of calm so that they operate at normal levels

Question 7

Corrine steps on a jagged shell and withdraws foot instantly. What’s the correct pathway sequence?

Answer 7

Sensory neuron, interneuron then motor neuron