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WorksheetsAQA Psychology GCSE Structures & Functions of the NS
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 2mins
The Nervous System Consists of...
The peripheral nervous system
Central Nervous System
All of the above
None of the above
What Does The CNS Consist of?
The brain and the thalamus
Just the brain
The brain and the spinal cord
The optical nerve and the medulla oblongata
What can the ANS be divided into?
The brain and the spinal cord
Sympathetic vision and parasympathetic vision
The hypothalamus and the cerebral cortex
The brain and the brain stem
What can the PNS be divided into?
You tell me, what am i, a magician?
The optical peripherallus
Nerve cells (synapses - motor neuron, relay neurons etc.)
The somatic nervous system & the autonomic nervous system
What is the highlighted area?
Brian
Brain stem
Thalamus
Occipital lobe
What is the thalamus?
b r a i n b e a n
Receives sensory stimuli and sends it to other parts of the body
controls basic autonomous life functions
Is highly developed at birth
What is the cerebellum?
It is near the spinal cord and co-ordinates sensory and motor
walnut
the thin and folded cover with the purpose of thinking and processing
In charge of the sensorimotor stage (0-2 years old)
What is the cortex?
Dweck's mindset theory
In charge of autonomic functions
Near the cerebellum - in charge of auditory functions
In charge of thinking & processing & can be divided into 2 halves (hemispheres) and where mental processing takes place
What is the somatic nervous system?
Voluntary movement of muscles and reflex responses. Also sends messages to muscles and takes in information from sensory organs
Autonomic functions such as breathing, heart rate, stress response
Takes in information from outside world to CNS and information from CNS to muscles
Made of the brain and spinal cord
What is the CNS
Made of the brain and spinal cord
Right hemisphere - controls left side of our body
Left hemisphere - controls the right side
Takes in information from outside world to CNS and information from CNS to muscles
Autonomic functions such as breathing, heart rate, stress response
Voluntary movement of muscles and reflex responses. Also sends messages to muscles and takes in information from sensory organs
