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What are the difference between reflex arc and reflex action? Some of these actions are reflexes and some are habits. When you touch a hot stove, your body jerks you away to safety before you have time to think. When a speck flies close to your eyes, your lids usually blink shut by themselves. These quick safety measures are reflexes. They are built in operations that the body performs without orders from your mind.
When you touch a flame, a nerve in your skin flashes a signal to the spinal column inside your backbone. There the signal is relayed to an order giving nerve. This nerve flashes an order to your muscles and they jerk you to safety. And the whole, complicated operation of this reflex happens in a moment, before you have time to think.
You could, of course, use will power to keep your hand in a flame. But this silly defiance would be difficult as well as painful.
When you want to cross a room, you start walking without thinking of the necessary balancing and complicated muscle work. You may be tempted to think of walking as another built in reflex, but this is not true. Is a learned habit. Preferably, a day that has external changes, because these cues will help reinforce the new routines. On that date, start!
Eventually these routines become mutually-reinforcing, so that your brain knows that the next action after turning off your alarm clock is to go outside and run, or that the next action after washing your breakfast dishes is to brush your teeth. This is why routines work well in sequences. But… this is worth it. For example, I think you could produce enough external change to make morning and evening routine changes much easier, just by rearranging the furniture in your bedroom.
You can even just download the Kindle sample and read the first half-dozen for free, to get a taste of it. So how do you do this? My strategy is to focus really hard for a week. Some habits might take two or more weeks: Hands Off Face , for example, was really hard because there are a lot of strong triggers for face-touching, ranging from itchiness to psychological discomfort.
We shall find evidences of their development at periods covering a considerable portion of the time of organic growth. Furthermore, we shall find that, in a modified form, the instincts remain throughout life as fundamentally important factors in the evolution of volition and in the foundation of character. The point to which we wish to call attention for a moment is illustrated by the growth of the hand and eye control. They move independently of one another, and with no special reference to objects in the field of view.
In the course of the first few weeks, however, they begin to move together, to converge, and gradually to show a tendency to follow moving objects. At this time the child loses its original blank stare, and from time to time fixates objects with a totally new expression of countenance. About the time that this accomplishment is achieved the hand begins to show a definite development. It explores objects with which it is in contact. The thumb, which at the beginning took little or no part in clasping, is now brought into operation, and the things grasped are moved about in a fairly well coordinated manner.
The next step in advance is characteristic of all development in motor control, and consists in the conjoining of the two previously independent coordinations of hand and eye. The eye is now able to follow the hand, and the hand is able to give the eye objects for inspection.
We shall come back with more of detail to this type of intercoordination of acquired forms of control in our analysis of voluntary action.
Meantime, it will be helpful to bear in mind that once a coordination, like the eye-coordination, is gotten under command, it is promptly incorporated as a member of a larger coordination, such as the eye-hand coordination, which is in its turn destined to a similar fate in the course of evolving conduct. Turning back now to a fuller study of the instinctive and reflex types of action, we shall find the general trend of events to be somewhat as follows: 'The development of the nervous system goes on with astonishing rapidity during the first three years, so that the child has, with the exception of the sexual processes, practically a full store of reflexes established by the end of that time.
Contemporaneous with this acquirement of the reflexes occurs the gradual unfolding of. We must now analyse more carefully the details of this process. Reflex Action. Consciousness is often aroused by reflex actions, but the motor reaction is not executed in response to conscious motives, and in the more deeply imbedded reflexes consciousness is quite powerless to suppress the movement. Thus, in winking we may be conscious that the eyelid has closed, and at times the movement may be executed voluntarily.
But if a cinder or other irritating substance enter the eye we may be wholly unable to resist the tendency to shut the lids. On the other band, when we are absorbed in reading our eyelids may close dozens of times in the reflex way, without our b ecoming in any definite manner aware of the fact. Variability of Reflexes. It remains to point out certain other striking facts about them. In the first place, they are subject, like all organic activities, to the general principles of development.
They appear from time to time, as the nervous centres ripen, and are not all given complete at birth. The more rudimentary of them appear within the first few months. Sneezing, coughing, and hiccoughing come within the first few days, as a rule.
Winking comes somewhat later, generally from the seventh to the eleventh week. Walking, which is primarily based upon reflexes, does not ordinarily begin until the twelfth to the eighteenth month or thereabouts, and is generally preceded by the creeping movements, which are probably partially reflex.
Moreover, no one of the reflex acts is, at the outset, so well coordinated as it speedily becomes. Furthermore, the reflexes vary at times in response to the general conditions of the organism.
They are not wholly dependent in their operation upon the presence of a stimulus. The child, for example, when sated, stops sucking. When one is nervously wrought up, a slight noise, if unexpected, may result in a violent movement; whereas, if one had been agreeably absorbed in some occupation, no movement of any noticeable kind would have occurred.
On the other hand, the essentially mechanical nature of the reflex is rendered obvious by the impartial way in which such responses are often executed, regardless of the desirability of the act at the moment.
A man wishes his presence to be unobserved when in a dangerous situation, and he must needs select that occasion to be seized with an irrepressible paroxysm of sneezing.
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