Critical Thinking: Brain Story
Fill in the blanks with terms from the list in your Ch 13 Prep Guide.
1. While taking a break from studying, you want to get a glass of ice water. As you fill your glass
with ice, one cube falls on the floor. As we are all thinking of cleanliness at this time, you pick it
up right away. As you pick it up, it feels cold. You know that a ________ neuron (functional
classification) carries an action potential to the _________________ cortex of the brain to
produce the perception of cold.
2. To walk over and put the ice cube that fell on the floor into the sink, muscles receive action
potential from ______________ neurons (functional classification). These action potentials
originate in the _________________ cortex in the _______________ lobe of the brain. The
_________________ produces action potentials to support your balance while walking over to
the sink.
3. While sitting at your desk, studying anatomy and physiology, you need to check something in
your textbook because the memory of it is not stored in your _______________________. You
reach into your bag and feel for your anatomy textbook, you choose the correct book because
your _________________ association area knows the texture, weight and size of that book.
Your _________________ cortex initiates action potentials that go to your skeletal muscles to
pick up the book.
4. Before you look up the answer to your question you decide to walk over to the fridge for a
snack. You don’t have to think about the process of walking because your _________________
nucleus knows the pattern for walking. You open the fridge and take a swig of orange juice, your
________________ cortex perceives that the taste is sweet.
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Fill in the blanks with terms from the list in your Ch 13 Prep Guide.
1. While taking a break from studying, you want to get a glass of ice water. As you fill your glass
with ice, one cube falls on the floor. As we are all thinking of cleanliness at this time, you pick it
up right away. As you pick it up, it feels cold. You know that a ________ neuron (functional
classification) carries an action potential to the _________________ cortex of the brain to
produce the perception of cold.
2. To walk over and put the ice cube that fell on the floor into the sink, muscles receive action
potential from ______________ neurons (functional classification). These action potentials
originate in the _________________ cortex in the _______________ lobe of the brain. The
_________________ produces action potentials to support your balance while walking over to
the sink.
3. While sitting at your desk, studying anatomy and physiology, you need to check something in
your textbook because the memory of it is not stored in your _______________________. You
reach into your bag and feel for your anatomy textbook, you choose the correct book because
your _________________ association area knows the texture, weight and size of that book.
Your _________________ cortex initiates action potentials that go to your skeletal muscles to
pick up the book.
4. Before you look up the answer to your question you decide to walk over to the fridge for a
snack. You don’t have to think about the process of walking because your _________________
nucleus knows the pattern for walking. You open the fridge and take a swig of orange juice, your
________________ cortex perceives that the taste is sweet.
This study source was downloaded by 100000901307859 from CourseHero.com on 11-06-2025 07:39:38 GMT -06:00
https://www.coursehero.com/file/252462683/brainstorydocx/
