Assessment criteria: Interaction part I

1. Describe the stages in the interaction function: stimuli, receptors, coordination, effectors, response.
2. Define the concepts of stimulus, response, receptor, meninges, sense organ, and effector.
3. State the type of receptor in the different sense organs.
4. Know the parts of the sense organs and their function.
5. Know the parts of a neuron and the mechanism of transmission of the nerve impulse.
6. Give three examples of neurotransmitters and the functions affected.
7. Know and locate the parts of the central nervous system and explain their functions:
   1. Encephalon
      1. Brain stem
      2. Cerebellum
      3. Hypothalamus
      4. Pituitary gland/hypophysis
      5. Amygdala
      6. Brain/Cerebrum/cerebral cortex
         1. Frontal lobe
         2. Parietal lobe
         3. Temporal lobe
         4. Occipital lobe
   2. Spinal cord.
8. Differentiate between gray and white matter.
9. Know the parts of the peripheral nervous system, their functions and how it is organized.
   1. Explain what ganglia are.
   2. Explain what nerves are.
   3. Differentiate between a cranial nerve and a spinal one.
   4. Differentiate between a sensory nerve and a motor one.
   5. Differentiate between a sensory neuron, a motor neuron and an interneuron.
   6. Explain the functions of the somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system.
   7. Differentiate between the parasympathetic system and the sympathetic system and to know some of the actions triggered by the latter.
10. Thoroughly explain how a reflex action takes place.
11. Given a situation in which a person is carrying out the interaction function, thoroughly explain all the processes that are taking place.