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.
- Hearing the alarm clock: Somatic Sensory Nervous System
- Stretching: Somatic Motor
- Yawning: Somatic Motor
- Salivating: Autonomic (Parasympathetic) Motor
- Smelling the coffee: Somatic Sensory
- Rumbling of the stomach: Enteric Motor
Reference:
Tortora, G. J., & Derrickson, B. (2017). Principles of Anatomy and Physiology (15th ed.). John Wiley & Sons Inc.