Act 5 Sensory Stimuli

Question 1

Pattern of UNEVEN distribution in Sensory Receptors

Answer 1

Punctate Distribution

Question 2

Types of Stimuli (5)

Answer 2

Light
Sound
Pressure
Heat
Chemicals

Question 3

Sensory System:

____ is received by ____ which turns (1) to _____ that are transmitted by ____ and ____ to the ___ to interpret the message.

Answer 3

Stimuli

Receptors

Neural Signs

Sensory Nerves

Neural Tracts

Brain

Question 4

Receptor types (7)

Answer 4

Photoreceptors

Thermoreceptors

Proprioreceptors

Pain Receptors

Mechanoreceptors

Baroreceptors

Chemoreceptors

Question 5

Detect light for the eye

Answer 5

Photoreceptor

Question 6

In the skin, changes in temp

Answer 6

Thermoreceptor

Question 7

Detects changes in Tension like in Joints

Answer 7

Proprioreceptors

Question 8

Naked nerve endings in skin and stomach

Answer 8

Nociceptors

Question 9

Perceive mechanical stimuli like touch or hearing or equilibrium

Answer 9

Mechanoreceptors

Question 10

Respond to changes in pressure like blood pressure

Answer 10

Baroreceptors

Question 11

Changes in chemical environnment like taste and smell

Answer 11

Chemoreceptors

Question 12

Sense of taste

Answer 12

Gestation

Question 13

Sense of taste found in (3)

Answer 13

Taste buds

Soft Palate

Pharynx

Question 14

Perception found in (2)

Answer 14

Facial nerves

glossopharyngeal nerves

Question 15

Perception interpreted in ____

Where ____

Answer 15

Postcentral gyrus

Parietal Lobe

Question 16

Sense of Smell

Answer 16

Olfaction

Question 17

Smell occurs when particles stimulate hair cells in the ___ and transmitted by ____

Answer 17

olfactory epithelium

olfactory nerves