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reacting when someone flashes his or her hand to your face that includes blinking
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A reflex action is a sudden reaction to a stimuli (a change in the environment) & often acts to protect you.
Some are controlled by the brain (cranial reflexes) such as when you blink as dust lands in your eye, or your pupil gets smaller as light is shone in your eye.
Some reflexes are controlled by the spinal cord (spinal reflexes) such as when you touch a hot object or stand on a pin.
Some reflexes can have learnt responses so they are calledconditioned reflexes. These reflexes occur without you even thinking about them e.g. walking & producing saliva when you smell food.
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A reflex is an example of what type of response?
a reflex ia an example of an instinctive response
What controls reflex actions?
spinal cordautotomicspinal cord in the central nervous system controls reflex arc and reflex action.
What is an automatic response to a stimuli?
Reflex. Reflexes ensure that a organism responds to an event in a way most likely to result in survival. For example, when touching a hot surface, most people will immediately jerk their hand away.
What is the jump reflex?
Jump reflection is a a reflex action that takes place under the control of spinal cordand not the involvement of CNS. Eg. When we stamp on a nail or on an hot plate we immediately move the leg because of reflex action.
What is effector muscle for calcaneal reflex action?
gastrocnemius
What is a difference between reflex and voluntary action?
The difference between reflex and voluntary action is that a reflex occurs naturally in response to some sort of stimulus and voluntary action is something that is consciously carried out. An example of a reflex action is gagging and an example of voluntary action is flinching when someone is going to hit you.
Give one example of a reflex action?
Blinking
Give an example a reflex action?
brain and the spinal cord will reaction
Is sweating a reflex action?
No it is not a reflex action
Difference between conscious action and reflex action?
Reflex is when something in your body does natuarally (can't stop) and conscious action is when you respond and act towards it. For example: if a bee stung you, you quickly move away
What is a reflax action?
A reflex action is an "automatic" and sometimes involuntary action caused by the presence of a stimulus.The action requires no conscious thought and will happen naturally.An example is someone waving ther hand very close to your face, you will naturally blink.This is a reflex action.
What are the properties of reflex action?
The value of a reflex action is to survive. For example, if we place our hands on a hot oven. Our reflex would be to take our hand off and register the pain. OR A perfect example would be the rooting reflex. Which helps a breastfed infant find the mother's nipple. Babies display it only when hungry and touched by another person, not when they touch themselves.
What are reflex arcs and reflex actions?
The reflex arc is the nerve pathway that the signal follows. For example, the knee jerk reflex arc has a stimulus going to an interneuron in the spine and a motor neuron completes the arc by causing the knee to jerk. A reflex is just the action itself.
A child puts her hand on a hot stove she quickly removes it this is an example of and it involves?
Reflex action
What reflex is the knee jerk reflex an example of?
knee jerk aka patellar reflex is an example of a stretch reflex
What is the difference between conscious action and reflex action?
A reflex action is an action by which your body does subconsciously or naturally whereas a conscious action is an action that you intentionally respond and act towards.
How is a reflex action different from a action by hormines?
Reflex action is the instant reaction of our body while hormonial action takes more time to react
