Reflexes

Question 1

What is a reflex?

Answer 1

Fast and automatic response to stimuli

Question 2

What are the 2 types of reflexes?

Answer 2

Innate and Learned

Question 3

What is an innate reflex?

Answer 3

A reflex you are born with, such as blinking or breathing

Question 4

What is a learned response?

Answer 4

A reflex you have learned over time, such as catching a ball

Question 5

What is the reflex arc?

Answer 5

Set sequence of events which occur in any reflex

Question 6

Explain what the reflex arc is?

Answer 6

Receptor detects stimuli (pain), travels along sensory neuron, passes over synapse (gap), travels along connector neuron, motor neuron carries impulse towards an effector, effector responds by contracting.

Question 7

What is a synapse also called and what is it?

Answer 7

A synapse is a neuromuscular junction or a gap between two neurons.

Question 8

What is stimuli?

Answer 8

Feeling; pressure on the skin, pain.

Question 9

Does the information get sent straight to the brain?

Answer 9

No, once the impulse has passed the motor neuron, then is it sent to the brain.