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Your alarm clock woke you up early in the morning as a signal that you need to prepare for class. You stretched, yawned, and began to salivate as you smell the brewing coffee. Your stomach also begins to rumble. List the divisions of the nervous system that are involved in each of these responses.
Incessant flow of information is quickly traversed through the internet from one side of the world to the other, much like the job description of the nervous system. Brain emulates a computer that controls the execution of bodily functions while its network, the nervous system, operates to cascade information to various regions of the body to receive a command. A list of actions tabulated below explain what division of the nervous system engenders much of the patterns of our daily living:
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ACTIVITY |
DIVISION OF NERVOUS SYSTEM |
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Hearing the alarm |
Somatic Sensory |
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Smelling the coffee |
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Stretching |
Somatic Motor |
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Yawning |
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Salivation |
Autonomic Parasympathetic Motor |
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Rumbling of stomach |
Enteric Motor |