The Division of the Nervous System That Allows the Brain

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Multiple Choice

The division of the nervous system that allows the brain and the spinal cord to communicate with the sensory systems of the eyes, ears, skin, and mouth, and allows the brain and spinal cord to control the muscles and glands of the body is called the __________

• A) peripheral nervous system.
• B) central nervous system.
• C) endocrine system.
• D) secondary nervous system.

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Definitions:

Instinctive Drift

The tendency of an animal to revert to instinctual behaviors that interfere with a conditioned response.

Conditioned Taste Aversions

This refers to the phenomenon where an organism, after consuming a particular food and subsequently experiencing illness, develops a lasting aversion to that food.

Biological Constraints

Limitations on learning processes that are determined by the nature of an organism's biological makeup.

Positive Punishment

An operant conditioning principle where the addition of a stimulus after a behavior makes the behavior less likely to happen in the future.