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 theĀ
brewing coffee. Your stomach also begins to rumble. List the divisions of the nervous system that are involved in each of these responses.
Hearing the sound of an alarm clock and smelling the brewing coffee are both somatic sensory, while stretching and yawning is a somatic motor. Salivation is the autonomic nervous system. Lastly, the rumbling stomach is the enteric nervous system which controls the GI tract.