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AP Psychology 1.5 Biological Bases of Behavior. The voluntary movements of picking up and shooting a ball are controlled by what?
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- 00:03
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by voluntary
- 00:06
movements..A category which definitely does not include push-ups here's our [Two guys fighting in a sports hall]
- 00:10
question playing basketball requires muscle coordination. The voluntary
- 00:14
movements of picking up and shooting the ball are controlled by what and your
- 00:19
potential answers are here.. I don't see Kobe.com in there....
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- 00:23
alright well ok so these systems clearly have a lot of anxiety but what do they [Girl looking anxious]
- 00:28
actually do well let's start with B, the autonomic nervous system well it's part
- 00:33
of the peripheral nervous system which consists of the nerves in ganglia [Skeleton diagram showing nerves and ganglia]
- 00:36
outside of the brain and spinal cord as opposed to the central nervous system
- 00:41
that exists in the spinal cord and brain... the peripheral nervous system is like
- 00:45
the assistant coach it lets the brain know everything that's going on with the [A coach wearing a tracksuit]
- 00:48
organs and limbs and stuff.. but enough about that let's get back to answer B.. The
- 00:52
autonomic nerve system influences the function of the internal organs like
- 00:57
heart rate, digestion and urination since it doesn't deal with muscle [Dog peeing on a fence]
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coordination, we can toss it. C isn't it either the sympathetic nervous
- 01:05
system is part of the aforementioned autonomic nervous system but it [A skeletal diagram of the spinal cord]
- 01:09
functions specifically to regulate the body's unconscious actions the [Two boys playing basketball]
- 01:14
fight-or-flight response crucial to survival yes! Related to basketball
- 01:18
skills? Er, not so much, bearing that in mind we can assume D isn't our guy
- 01:23
either the parasympathetic nervous system deals with paired actions like
- 01:27
rest and digest and feed and breathe when you hear the parasympathetic [Man sleeping in a bed with lots of food]
- 01:33
nervous system think our basic human needs eating, drinking, sleeping, go to the
- 01:38
bathroom and making babies, but maybe save one of those for after the game and
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seeing as we know the central nervous system is located in brain and spine
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it's pretty clearly not the answer we're looking for either sure it's the central [Skeletal image of spinal cord and brain]
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hub of activity but it doesn't deal directly with muscle coordination that
- 01:54
one's for the assistant coach to handle but leaves us with A; part of the
- 01:58
peripheral nervous system the somatic nervous system delivers information to [Two girls texting each other]
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the central nervous system about voluntary movement and sensory
- 02:05
information both of which Kobe has in spades..Us?
- 02:11
not so much [Baby falls from a mat while playing basketball]
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