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.
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Somatic Nervous System
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Information is received by the somatic sensors thus even if most actions are initially initiated by the autonomic nervous system, once we regain enough consciousness, our SNS immediately regains control and allow us to stop or further do the action
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Autonomic Nervous System
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Sympathetic Nervous System
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As the brain continuously receives booming sounds, our adrenal glands increase our blood pressure — a factor why our body wakes up.
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Parasympathetic Nervous System
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initiates the yawning and the stretching we immediately do after waking up. The hypothalamus specifically controls this action, however, as we regain control in our muscles, we transition in using our somatic nervous system
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initiates the salivation of our salivary glands from the information received by our olfactory sensors.
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Enteric Nervous System
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is responsible for the rumbling of our stomach as a response in regulating the activity in our GI tract
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DiGiulio, S. (2017, October 10). What Happens in Your Body and Brain While You Sleep. NBC News; NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/what-happens-your-body-brain-while-you-sleep-ncna805276
Tortora, G. J., & Derrickson, B. H. (2017). Tortora’s Principles of anatomy & physiology, global edition (15th ed.). Wiley.