3.6-3.8

Question 1

taste receptor cells in mouth; responsible for sense of taste.

Answer 1

Taste buds

Question 2

the sense of a taste.

Answer 2

Gustation

Question 3

Five Basic Tastes

Answer 3

Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, brothy

Question 4

sense of smell

Answer 4

Olfaction (Olfactory Sense)

Question 5

areas of the brain located just above the sinus cavity and just below the frontal lobes that receive information from the olfactory receptors (at least 1,000 olfactory receptors)

Answer 5

Olfactory Bulbs

Question 6

The body senses consisting of the skin senses, the kinesthetic sense, and the vestibular senses.

Answer 6

Somesthetic Senses

Question 7

soma

Answer 7

body

Question 8

esthetic

Answer 8

feeling

Question 9

the sensations of touch, pressure, temperature, and pain.

Answer 9

skin senses

Question 10

pain signals must pass through a “gate” located in the spinal cord.

Answer 10

Gate-control theory

Question 11

sense of the location of body parts in relation to the ground and each other.

Answer 11

Kinesthetic sense

Question 12

the sensations of movement, balance, and body position sensory conflict theory an explanation of motion sickness in which the information from the eyes conflict with the information from the vestibular senses, resulting in dizziness, nausea, and other physical discomforts.

Answer 12

Vestibular senses

Question 13

the method by which the sensations experienced at any given moment are interpreted and organized in some meaningful fashion.

Answer 13

Perception

Question 14

the tendency to interpret an object as always being the same actual size, regardless of its distance.

Answer 14

Size Constancy

Question 15

the tendency to interpret the shape of an object as being constant, even when its shape changes on the retina.

Answer 15

Shape Constancy

Question 16

the tendency to perceive the apparent brightness of an object as the same even when the light conditions change.

Answer 16

Brightness Constancy