Autonomic Nervous System

This is another name for the parasympathetic division of the nervous system

• Thoracolumbar division

• Craniosacral division

• Cervical division

• Brachial division

True or False. We have conscious control of our autonomic nervous system

• True

• False

Which of the following is NOT innervated by the ANS?

• smooth muscle of digestive tract

• glands

• skeletal muscle

• cardiac muscle of heart

True or False. For our somatic nervous system, an action potential always has an excitatory effect, never an inhibitory effect

• True

• False

This term describes how the majority of our organs are innervated by both sympathetic and parasympathetic fibers

The parasympathetic division has ____ preganglionic fibers and ___ post ganglionic fibers

• short, long

• long, short

• short, short

• long, long

True or False. Our autonomic nervous system has less myelination than our somatic nervous system

• True

• False

Name one structure in our body that is exclusively innervated by sympathetic fibers

This receptor type is found in the skeletal muscles of our somatic nervous system and always has an excitatory response when it is found here

• Cholinergic

• Adrenergic

• Nicotinic

• Muscarinic

Which division of our ANS is responsible dilating our pupils?

• The sympathetic nervous system

• The parasympathetic nervous system