This question was attempted by many candidates. While the candidates answered fairly question 9(b), their performance in questions 9(a) and 9(c) was poor.
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Definition of Handicap
A condition which incapacitates a person either mentally/physically/socially, usually caused at birth by inheritance/accident/disease/any other causes.
Examples of Physical handicap:
- Lameness
- Paraplegia
- Complete/partial blindness
- Deafness Dumb/deaf/stammerer
Functions of parts of the human brain:
(i) Cerebellum
- Maintains muscular tone
- Controls and coordinates the movements of various groups of muscles
- Maintains the balance and equilibrium of the body
- Influences the contraction of skeletal muscles
(ii) Cerebrum:
- Initiates and controls the contraction of voluntary muscle
- Responsible for memory/intelligence/reasoning/emotions
- Controls sensory perception/pain/temperature/touchlsound/smell etc.
- Interprets all conscious sensation.
(iii) Medulla oblongata:
- Controls muscular movements
- Controls the rate and force of heart beat
- Controls the rate and depth of respiration
- Controls reflex actions
- Controls vasoconstriction and vasodilatation of blood vessels.
