Reflexes

• Reflexes


  Impulses and involuntary
• Reflex nervous response


  1. Stimulus detected by receptor

  2. Electrical impulses travel along sensory neurons to the spinal cord

  3. Impulse automatically passes through a relay neurone in the spinal cord

  4. Impulse starts along a motor neurone to an effector

  5. Response brought about
• The spinal cord is a part of the central nervous system