Yvonne's Ability to Reach for and Pick Up Her Book

question 414

Multiple Choice

Yvonne's ability to reach for and pick up her book is largely due to the functions of the __________ pathway of the __________ nervous system.

• A) motor, somatic
• B) sensory, somatic
• C) autonomic, peripheral
• D) parasympathetic, autonomic

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Definitions:

Delusions

False beliefs held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary, often observed in psychiatric conditions.

Compulsions

Repetitive actions or rituals that an individual feels driven to perform, often in response to obsessive thoughts, aimed at reducing anxiety or preventing a dreaded event or situation.

Phobic Reaction

An intense and irrational fear response to a specific object, situation, or activity, leading to avoidance behavior.

Enlarged Brain Ventricles

A condition where the fluid-filled spaces in the brain, known as ventricles, are abnormally large.