Which of the Following Components of the Nervous System Is

question 49

Multiple Choice

Which of the following components of the nervous system is responsible for maintaining balance and detecting linear and angular acceleration?

• A)motor cortex
• B)joint and tendon receptors
• C)ocularmotor center
• D)vestibular apparatus

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Definitions:

Ordinal

Pertains to a categorical ranking where the order among values is significant but not the distance between them.

Interval

A range between two numbers or points, often used to specify the precision of an estimate or the coverage of a dataset.

Kruskal-Wallis Test

The Kruskal-Wallis Test is a non-parametric statistical test used to determine if there are statistically significant differences between two or more groups of an independent variable on a continuous or ordinal dependent variable.

Chi-Squared Distribution

A statistical distribution that is used to describe the distribution of a sum of the squares of k independent standard normal variables, commonly used in hypothesis testing.