Conscious and Unconscious Responses - Spinal Reflex

Question 1

What is a conscious response?

Answer 1

When the brain receives the sensory information and makes a conscious decision on what to do

Question 2

Give an example of a conscious response…

Answer 2

Seeing or thinking about something, then deciding how to respond

Question 3

What is an unconscious response?

Answer 3

An automatic response to sensory stimuli where your body reacts to on it’s own
Brain becomes aware after reaction has happened

Question 4

Give an example of an unconscious response…

Answer 4

The spinal reflex causing you to pull your arm away from a flame before you’re even conscious about it

Question 5

What is the spinal reflex?

Answer 5

The spinal reflex is an unlearned, automatic, and immediate reaction to dangerous stimuli

Spinal reflexes can enhance survival because the decision is made quicker than a conscious response

Question 6

Is the spinal reflex conscious or unconscious?

Answer 6

Unconscious and automatic

Question 7

What division of the Nervous System does the spinal reflex belong to?

Answer 7

occurs in the somatic nervous system

Question 8

How does the Spinal Reflex work?

Answer 8

a dangerous sensory stimulus is detected and sent over to the spinal cord

it then reaches an interneuron within the spinal cord that makes a basic coordination to retract from the stimulus via the motor neurons

then the message is sent straight to the according muscles, while the information is passed up to the brain to be made conscious