HPNU 3060 Exam 2 Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers for Accuracy
Question: Two subdivisions of efferent neurons?
Answer: somatic motor neurons and autonomic neurons
Question: Where do efferent neurons carry information?
Answer: from CNS to the muscles and glands of the body
Question: What muscles do somatic motor neurons control?
Answer: skeletal muscles
Question: What muscles do autonomic neurons control?
Answer: smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, many glands, and
some adipose tissue
Question: What two subdivisions are part of the autonomic
division?
Answer: sympathetic branch ("fight-or-flight) and
parasympathetic branch ("rest-and-digest")
Question: What reflexes work with the endocrine and
behavioral state system to maintain homeostasis?
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Answer: Autonomic reflexes
Question: Where are the homeostatic control centers
located?
Answer: hypothalamus, pons, medulla
Question: What autonomic reflexes do not need integration
in brain?
Answer: spinal reflexes
Question: What initiates autonomic, endocrine, and
behavioral responses?
Answer: The hypothalamus, pons and medulla
Question: Figure 11.2
Answer:
Question: Figure 11.3
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Question: What are the branches of antagonistic control?
Answer: excitatory branch and inhibitory branch
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Question: What are some exceptions to dual antagonistic
control?
Answer: sweat glands and smooth muscles in most blood
vessels and cooperative control
Question: cooperative control
Answer: work on different tissues to achieve common goal
Question: What are autonomic pathways two efferent
neurons in series?
Answer: preganglionic neuron and postganglionic neuron
Question: Where does the preganglionic neuron project
from and go to?
Answer: projects from CNS to an autonomic ganglion outside
the CNS
Question: What does the the preganglionic neuron synapse
with?
Answer: synapses with postganglionic neuron
Question: Where does the postganglionic neuron project
from and go to?
Answer: projects from an autonomic ganglion and to the target
tissue