Neuro psych Quiz 3.1

Question 1

Neuroanatomy

Answer 1

The anatomy of the nervous system

Question 2

Central Nervous System (CNS)

Answer 2

The brain and spinal cord

Question 3

Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

Answer 3

Connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body.

Question 4

Somatic Nervous system

Answer 4

a part of the PNS that consists of axons conveying messages from the sense organs to the CNS and from the CNS to the muscles

Question 5

Autonomic Nervous System

Answer 5

Part of the PNS that controls the heart, intestines, and other organs

Question 6

Dorsal

Answer 6

Toward the back

Question 7

Ventral

Answer 7

Toward the stomach (think ventriloquist)

Question 8

Spinal Cord

Answer 8

Part of the CNS in the spinal column that communicate with all the sense organs and muscles except those of the head.

Question 9

Root ganglia

Answer 9

The cell bodies of the sensory neurons clustered outside the spinal cord.

Question 10

What is a cluster of neurons outside the CNS called?

Answer 10

ganglion

Question 11

What is a cluster of neurons inside the CNS called>

Answer 11

nucleus

Question 12

Gray matter

Answer 12

Packed with cell bodies and dendrites. sends axons to the brain or other parts of the spinal cord