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Any internal or external change that brings about a response is called a stimulus. As a key homeostatic regulatory and coordinating system, the nervous system detects, interprets, and responds to changes in external and internal conditions.

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What are effectors of the nervous system?

The effectors of the nervous system are muscles and glands. They respond to nervous stimuli.


What is the nervous system triggered to respond to?

The nervous system is triggered to respond to stimuli.


What part of the nervous system responds to stimuli?

The parts of the nervous system that respond to stimuli are called the sensory nervous system. This includes touch, pressure, hot and cold, sound, light, and taste.


Changes that activate the nervous system?

Stimuli


Which part of the body responds to stimuli?

The nervous system.


What body system main function to receive stimuli?

The nervous system.


Activation of the receptors by stimuli is called?

Activation of receptors by stimuli is called sensory transduction. This process involves converting physical or chemical signals into electrical signals that can be interpreted by the nervous system.


What body systems are involved in reaction to a stimulus?

Fundamentally the system involved in a reaction to a stimuli is the nervous system.


What is responsible for how animals react to stimuli within the environment?

The nervous system. Which is made up of the peripheral nervous system and the central nervous system (including the brain).


Information entering the central nervous system from the external environment is called what?

Information entering the central nervous system from the external environment is called external stimuli. External stimuli are factors which are detected by the body and communicated to the central nervous system such as temperature and scents.


What organ system reacts to stimuli?

The respiratory system is responsible for bringing gases into and out of the body. It could not perform this exchange, however, without the circulatory system.