Reflex and voluntary actions

Question 1

What type of response is reflex?

Answer 1

Quick, automatic, involuntary responses e.g pulling hand away from hot cooker

Question 2

How can the neurons of the reflex pathways function?

Answer 2

Without instruction from the brain, instead information flows form the spinal cord, and then back out into the body, and then the body protects itself

Question 3

What occurs in the most simple reflex pathways?

Answer 3

Information floes from the body to a sensory neuron that connects to an interneuron within the spine . That impulse then goes to a motor neuron running from the spinal cord back out to an effector, usually being a muscle

Question 4

What are voluntary actions?

Answer 4

Actions involved with making a choice e.g walking, running, eating.

Question 5

What information do voluntary actions require?

Answer 5

The brain, voluntary pathways gather the information collected from sensory neurons and then it goers to the brain. Interneurons carry information within the brain and spina cord