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What are Reflex actions?
• Closing of eyes when a bright light is focused on your eyes is a reflex action.
• Reflex actions save us from danger when there is a painful or dangerous stimulus.
• Reflex actions are fast, immediate, automatic and involuntary responses of the body.
• Reflexes occur without our thinking. Brain is not involved in the execution of several reflexes.
What is Reflex arc? What are the components of the Reflex arc? Mention their functions?
• The structural and functional unit that carries out reflex action is called a Reflex arc.
• Component of Reflex arc: Reflex arc is consisting of five parts. They are Receptor, sensory nerve or afferent nerve, Interneuron or Association neuron, motor nerve or efferent nerve, and Effect-or organ.
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Receptor - Receives information and generates impulses.
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Sensory Nerve
Interneuron - Processes the information and generates responses.
Motor Nerve - Carries the information from the spinal cord to effector organ.
Effector organ response.
- Carries information from the receptor to the inter neurons in the spinal cord.
- Receives the information from the effectors neuron and shows the appropriate
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Write a short note on conditional Reflexes.
• Conditioned reflexes are not inherited.
• These reflexes are acquired due to repeated actions.
• Human beings are not exception to these conditioned reflexes.
• Conditional reflexes are not same in all individuals and are not inherited.
Ivan Pavlov’s experiment and dog to demonstrate conditioned reflexes explain?
• Ivan Pavlov a Russian scientist conducted a number of experiments on conditional reflexes. His experiments on dog have become very famous. www.sakshieducation.com

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• It is a common observation that when a dog sees food it salivates. He rang a bell when the dog was given food. After doing this for few days he noticed that the dog started salivating when it heard the bell even if the food was not given.
• Dog associated with sound of the bell with food and assumed that whenever the bell rang food was given
• In expectation of food, saliva started flowing from its mouth.
• Human beings are no exception to this. Conditional reflexes are not same in all individuals and not inherited.
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What is decade of the Brain?
The decade 1990 to 2000 is known as "Decade of Brain" and large number of scientists is working hard to understand the working of human brain.
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The information about a stimulus is analysed by _______ of spinal cord.
The weight of the brain in the total weight of the body is _______
In reflex action the sensory nerve carries the information to _______ in spinal cord.
Out standing in attention when we hear our National Anthem is a _______
The cerebral cortex alone has _______number of neurons.
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