Chapter 12: Senses Flashcards
You enter a sauna and it feels awfully hot, but soon the temperature feels comfortably warm. What have you experienced?
a. damaged to your thermoreceptors
b. sensory adaption
c. a change in the temperature of the sauna
d. inactivation of your thermoreceptors
e. temporary damage to sensory neurons
b. sensory adaption
The lacrimal glands produce ………., which drain(s) into the ……….
a. tears - anterior cavity
b. tears - nasal cavity
c. the vitreous body - vitreous chamber
d. aqueous humor - anterior cavity
e. aqueous humor - scleral venous sinus
b. tears - nasal cavity
The spiral organ (organ of Corti) …
a. contains hair cells
b. is responsible for equilibrium
c. is filled with perilymph
d. is another name for the auditory (eustachian) tube
e. transmits auditory nerve impulses to the brain
a. contains hair cells
Equilibrium and the activities of muscles and joints are monitored by…
a. olfactory receptors
b. nocireceptors
c. tactile receptors
d. proprioceptors
e. thermoreceptors
d. proprioceptors
In the retina, cone photoreceptors…
a. are more numerous than rods
b. contain the photopigment rhodopsin
c. are more sensitive to low light levels than are rods.
d. tend to be highly concentrated in the optic disc.
e. provide higher acuity of vision than do rods.
e. provide higher acuity of vision than do rods.
Which of the following is NOT required for a sensation to occur?
a. the presence of a stimulus
b. a receptor specialized to detect a stimulus.
c. the presence of slowly adapting receptors.
d. a sensory neuron to conduct impulses.
e. a region of the brain for integration of the nerve impulse.
e. a region of the brain for integration of the nerve impulse.
Match the function with its receptor:
color vision
cone photoreceptors
Match the function with its receptor:
taste
gustatory receptor cells
Match the function with its receptor:
smell
olfactory receptor
Match the function with its receptor:
dynamic equilibrium
cristae
Match the function with its receptor:
vision in dim light
rod photoreceptor
Match the function with its receptor:
stretch in a muscle
muscle spindle
Match the function with its receptor:
static equilibrium
maculae
Match the function with its receptor:
pressure
pacinian corpuscle
Match the function with its receptor:
touch
Meissner corpuscle