Joint Movements
Closing of the joint angle around the frontal axis at the joint, such as during a bicep curl, is known as what?
Flexion
The restricted set of values that is optimally healthful and stable.
What is normal range
What are the components of the CNS?
The brain and spinal cord
What are the two divisions of the Autonomic Nervous System?
Sympathetic and Parasympathetic
Opening of the joint angle around the sagittal axis at the joint, such as during jumping jacks, is known as what?
Abduction
the physiological value around which the normal range fluctuates.
What is Set Point
What is the part of the CNS that controls balance and coordination?
What is the cerebellum
What is happening to Heart Rate and Blood Pressure when the Sympathetic NS is active?
Heart Rate and Blood Pressure both increase
What are the terms for movement that is up and down in the frontal plane, such as during a shoulder shrug?
Elevation and Depression
I.E. sweating, shivering
What are the two major functional properties of neurons?
What are irritability and conductivity.
What is happening to digestion during a Sympathetic response?
Digestion is slowed/stopped
Provide one joint movement that occurs in the transverse plane.
Protraction/Retraction or Pronation/Supination
Describe one positive feedback mechanism of the body.
What is Childbirth and Scabbing (clotting)
The idea that a stimulus is either strong enough to generate an action potential or not is known as what?
What is the All-or-none principle.
What is happening to the urinary system during a Parasympathetic response.
Constricts the Urinary Bladder (can hold more urine)
Whenever we pick something up or grip anything, where the thumb and index finger come together, is known as what?
Opposition
What is known as the master control of homeostasis?
What is the hypothalamus.
Describe an example of the 3 primary functions of the nervous system in action.
Sensory Stimulus, Integration, Motor Output. Ex: Red light
What is the main hormone that elicits a sympathetic response?
What is epinephrine (adrenaline)