Conscious Responses

• 1. Stimulus - interacts with us in some way
  2. Receptors - sensory receptors pickup the change
  3. Sensory Neurons - in the PNS send the message via afferent pathways to the spinal cord and the brain
  4. Interneurons - in the spinal cord relay this information to the brain and from the brain to motor neurons
  5. Motor Neurons - via the efferent pathway take the message from the CNS to the PNS area needed (e.g organ)
  6. Response - Effector reacts (e.g organ)
• Conscious responses involve awareness and are usually voluntary and have some degree of control over it
• Conscious responses are often learnt behaviours, and requires the brain to make a choice