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AQA Psychology GCSE Structures & Functions of the NS

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 2mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Nervous System Consists of...

a)

The peripheral nervous system

b)

Central Nervous System

c)

All of the above

d)

None of the above

2.

What Does The CNS Consist of?

a)

The brain and the thalamus

b)

Just the brain

c)

The brain and the spinal cord

d)

The optical nerve and the medulla oblongata

3.

What can the ANS be divided into?

a)

The brain and the spinal cord

b)

Sympathetic vision and parasympathetic vision

c)

The hypothalamus and the cerebral cortex

d)

The brain and the brain stem

4.

What can the PNS be divided into?

a)

You tell me, what am i, a magician?

b)

The optical peripherallus

c)

Nerve cells (synapses - motor neuron, relay neurons etc.)

d)

The somatic nervous system & the autonomic nervous system

5.

What is the highlighted area?

a)

Brian

b)

Brain stem

c)

Thalamus

d)

Occipital lobe

6.

What is the thalamus?

a)

b r a i n b e a n

b)

Receives sensory stimuli and sends it to other parts of the body

c)

controls basic autonomous life functions

d)

Is highly developed at birth

7.

What is the cerebellum?

a)

It is near the spinal cord and co-ordinates sensory and motor

b)

walnut

c)

the thin and folded cover with the purpose of thinking and processing

d)

In charge of the sensorimotor stage (0-2 years old)

8.

What is the cortex?

a)

Dweck's mindset theory

b)

In charge of autonomic functions

c)

Near the cerebellum - in charge of auditory functions

d)

In charge of thinking & processing & can be divided into 2 halves (hemispheres) and where mental processing takes place

9.

What is the somatic nervous system?

a)

Voluntary movement of muscles and reflex responses. Also sends messages to muscles and takes in information from sensory organs

b)

Autonomic functions such as breathing, heart rate, stress response

c)

Takes in information from outside world to CNS and information from CNS to muscles

d)

Made of the brain and spinal cord

10.

What is the CNS

a)

Made of the brain and spinal cord

Right hemisphere - controls left side of our body

Left hemisphere - controls the right side

b)

Takes in information from outside world to CNS and information from CNS to muscles

c)

Autonomic functions such as breathing, heart rate, stress response

d)

Voluntary movement of muscles and reflex responses. Also sends messages to muscles and takes in information from sensory organs