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Cubangbang #129285
Cubangbang's 6thA Ch.14 The Nervous System Stack #129285
Question | Answer |
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Central Nervous System | consists of the spinal cord and brain |
Brain | acts as the command center of the body |
Shape of the brain | a large, wrinkly walnut |
3 parts of the brain | Cerebrum, Cerebellum, Brain Stem |
Frontal Lobes | controls conscious movement and makes a person alert to what is going on around him/her |
Temporal lobe | deals with hearing, speech, and memory |
Parietal lobe | interprets pain, touch, and temperature as well as some taste and pressure on the skin |
Occipital lobe | stores information about what a person sees |
Spinal cord | main pathway of information connecting the brain to the rest of the body. |
Neurons | interprets the incoming message as pain |
Sensory neurons | carries messages to the brain |
Motor neurons | sending the messages from the brain and spinal cord to the muscles |
Somatic nervous system | controls your skeletal muscle movement |
Autonomic nervous system | controls involuntary activities |
Reflex | an action that happens before the brain has time to think about the action |
Five senses | hearing, sight, taste, smell, touch |
Memory | ability to remember |
Short term memory | stores information only temporarily |