AP PSYCHOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

THE NERVOUS AND ENDOCRINE SYSTEMS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
When you touch something hot, what is the path of the message?
A
brain, nerve, spinal cord
B
nerve, spinal cord, brain
C
spinal cord, nerve, brain
D
brain, spinal cord, nerve
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -To feel pain, impulses travel from the receptors in your hand to the spinal cord through sensory neurons. In the spinal cord, the sensory neurons synapse with interneurons that carry impulses to the sensory cortex area of the cerebrum in your brain.

Detailed explanation-2: -The parietal lobe, located behind the frontal lobe, processes information about touch, taste, and temperature.

Detailed explanation-3: -The pathway responsible for touch and proprioception is called the lemniscal pathway. The first axon in this pathway runs along the dorsal root of the spinal nerve and up the dorsal column of the spinal cord.

Detailed explanation-4: -What happens when you accidentally touch a hot plate? Sensors on your finger get activated and the information is relayed via nerves to your spinal cord (nervous system), which decides to immediately jerk back the hand by sending a signal to the arm muscles.

Detailed explanation-5: -Afferent neurons, also called sensory neurons, are the nerve fibers responsible for bringing sensory information from the outside world into the brain. Sensory information may involve special senses, such as vision, hearing, smell, or taste, as well as the sense of touch, pain, and temperature.

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