What is the difference between a reflex action and walking?

Question

What is the difference between a reflex action and walking?

Answer 1

Reflex action is an involuntary action or you can say it is an action which you cannot control yourself.

for example.........pumping of heart..........

walkin depends on you so it is termed as voluntary action..

acc. to me the main diff. b/w reflex action and walkin is its type of action

other diff are:

1. All reflex actions are involuntary in nature but all involutary actions are not reflexes as the beating of heart is an involuntary action but is not reflex action.

2.Reflex actions are v. quick but all involutary actions may not be v. fast as in heart beating.

3A reflex action may involve any muscle or a gland as we withdraw our hand on touching a hot object BUT all involuntary actions involve only smooth i.e., involuntary or cardiac muscles.

4. Reflex actions are at the level of spinal cord whereas the inv. actions generallly involve brain too

5. Nerves and autonomious nervous system can increase or decrease the rate of inv. actions but reflex actions can be controlled by great will only and are not usually controllable.

6. reflex actions are done to meet emergencies where as an inv.action may or may not be for just meeting an emergency but may be a critical lie process as circulation of blood, swallowing of food, movement of food in food pipe, etc.

7. A reflex action may be conditioned as in the case of salivation response by a dog on just hearing the bell (even when food is not supplied ) in Pavlov's expt. but an inv, action would not be generally influenced by external conditioning.

Hope it meets ur requirement !

Answer 2

A reflex is an involuntary reaction to some stimulus.  Walking is a conscious, deliberate action* you've probably gotten very used to.  However, earlier, you had to learn how to do it.

* Exceptions to that may be identified at closing time in some pubs.