Psychology : $b A study of mental life — John Shaqi
Psychology : $b A study of mental lifeWoodworth, Robert Sessions
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Psychology : $b A study of mental life
Woodworth, Robert Sessions
Psychology
(5) a muscle or _________.
D. The sensory and motor nerves consist of ________ which are
branches of ______. The cells for the motor nerves lie in the
________, and those for the sensory nerves lie in two cases in
the _________, and in all other cases in bunches located close
beside the _________or ________,
E. The neurone is the _______ of which the nervous ______ is
composed. It consists of a ________ and of two sorts of
branches, the ________ and the ________. Internally, the neurone
shows a peculiar structure of ________ and ________.
F. Communication from one neurone to another occurs across
a _____ called the synapse. The _________of an axon here comes
into close contact with the ______or with the _________of
another neurone. The communication takes place from the
________of the first neurone to the ___________ of the second.
G. The "nerve current" in a reflex therefore runs the following
course: from the sense organ into a ________ axon, along this to
its _________ in a nerve, and across a _________ there into the
_________ of a neurone, and thence {43} out along the _______of
this neurone to the ________or _________ that executes the
reflex. This is a two-neurone _________, but often there is a
third, ________neurone between the _________ and the
_____________.
H. Coördination is effected by the ________ of the axons of the
sensory and ________ neurones, by which means the nerve current
is ______ to a team of ________ and so to a team of _________.
2. Is the reaction time experiment, as described in the text, an
introspective or an objective experiment?
3. Mention two cases from common life that belong under the
"simple reaction", two that belong under "choice reaction", and two
that belong under the "associative reaction".
4. Arrange the reflexes mentioned in the text under the two heads
of "protective" and "regulative".
5. Draw diagrams of (a) the neurone, (b) a synapse, (c) a reflex
arc, and (d) a coördinated movement. Reduce each drawing to the
simplest possible form, and still retain everything that is
essential.
6. What part of the nervous system lies (a) in the forehead and
top of the head, (b) in the very back of the head, (c) along the
base of the skull, (d) within the backbone, (e) in the arm?
7. Using a watch to take the time, see how long it takes you to
name the letters in a line of print, reading them in reverse order
from the end of the line to the beginning. Compare with this time
the time required to respond to each letter by the letter following
it in the alphabet (saying "n" when you see m, and "t" when you see
s, etc.). Which of these two "stunts" is more like reflex action,
and how, nevertheless, does it differ from true reflex action?
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