PSL 310 Exam 2 Review UPDATED ACTUAL and Correct Answers

PSL 310 Exam 2 Review UPDATED ACTUAL and Correct
Answers
Question: The central nervous system is composed of what organs/parts?
Answer:
brain and spinal
cord

Question: The peripheral nervous system is composed of what divisions?
Answer:
afferent (sensory),
autonomic, somatic

Question: ANS divisions
Answer:
sympathetic and parasympathetic

Question: What are the three receptor types that detect sensory information?
Answer:
interoceptors, proprioceptors, exteroceptors

Question: interoceptors detect
Answer:
visceral (internal) senses

Question: Example of interoceptor in stomach?
Answer:
pain receptors

Question: Example of interoceptor in carotid arteries?
Answer:
baroreceptors

Question: proprioceptors
Answer:
monitor the position and movement of skeletal muscles and joints
(where are we in space? what muscles are contracting? Where and how fast?)

,Question: exteroceptors
Answer:
provide information about the external environment

Question: What senses are detected by exteroceptors?
Answer:
somatic and special senses

Question: somatic senses
Answer:
touch, pressure, temperature, pain (felt from the skin)

Question: special senses
Answer:
smell, taste, vision, hearing, equilibrium

Question: afferent division
Answer:
carries sensory information from PNS sensory receptors to CNS

Question: What three pathways can sensory information brought through the afferent division take?
Answer:
1. spinal cord --> brain

Question: spinal cord --> effector organ
Answer:


Question: PNS nerve --> brain
Answer:


Question: What pathway does sensory information involved in reflexes take?
Answer:
spinal cord
to effector organ; does not cross the brain

Question: The integrator in the nervous system is usually the
Answer:

, CNS

Question: Which division of the efferent nervous system handles conscious commands?
Answer:
somatic nervous system

Question: Which division of the efferent nervous system handles subconscious information?
Answer:
autonomic

Question: enteric nervous system (ENS)
Answer:
neural tissue associated with the digestive system that is responsible
for nervous control through autonomic connections

Question: Information in the somatic NS travels through ________ and goes to ________-
Answer:
motor neurons; skeletal muscles

Question: Information in the autonomic NS goes to ________
Answer:
cardiac muscle, smooth muscle,
glands, adipose tissue

Question: TIP TO REMEMBER
Answer:
Info in the autonomic nervous system goes to: everything
BUT the skeletal muscle

Question: Information in the enteric NS travels comes from_______ and is detected by
________
Answer:
digestive organs; enteroceptors

Question: Enteroceptors are a subdivision of
Answer:
interoceptors

Question: What pathway does information take during gastric reflexes?