chapter 16 - sensory, motor, and integrative system

Question 1

what type of senses are touch, pressure, vibration, itch, tickle, warm, and cold?

Answer 1

somatic senses

Question 2

what type of senses provide information about conditions within internal organs?

Answer 2

visceral senses

Question 3

what type of receptor is sensitive to touch, pressure, vibration, proprioception, hearing, and equilibrium?

Answer 3

mechaoreceptors

Question 4

what type of receptors detect changes in temperature?

Answer 4

thermoreceptors

Question 5

what type of receptors respond to pain?

Answer 5

nociceptors

Question 6

what type of receptor detects light?

Answer 6

photoreceptors

Question 7

what type of receptor detects taste and smell?

Answer 7

chemoreceptors

Question 8

what type of receptor picks up on fine touch, pressure, and slow vibration?

Answer 8

meissner corpuscle

Question 9

what type of receptor picks up on fine touch and pressure?

Answer 9

merkle disc

Question 10

what type of receptor picks up on crude touch and stretch?

Answer 10

ruffini corpuscle

Question 11

what type of receptor picks up on pressure and fast vibration?

Answer 11

pacinian

Question 12

what is the order of mechanoreceptors on touch to the skin?

Answer 12

meissner, merkel, ruffini, and pacini

Question 13

what is pain felt on the skin?

Answer 13

superficial somatic pain

Question 14

what is pain felt in skeletal muscles, joints, tendons, and fascia?

Answer 14

deep somatic pain

Question 15

what type of pain is felt in visceral organs?

Answer 15

visceral pain

Question 16

what type of pain is felt far away from the stimulated organ?

Answer 16

referred pain

Question 17

what monitors the change in muscle length?

Answer 17

muscle spindles

Question 18

what is responsible for the stretch reflex?

Answer 18

muscle spindles

Question 19

what is located the junction of tendons and muscles?

Answer 19

golgi tendon organs

Question 20

what monitors tension?

Answer 20

golgi tendon organs

Question 21

what forces a muscle to relax?

Answer 21

golgi tendon organs

Question 22

what is located in and around the joint capsule of synovial joints?

Answer 22

joint kinesthetic receptors

Question 23

what monitors joint position and joint movement?

Answer 23

joint kinesthetic receptors

Question 24

what are the sensory neurons?

Answer 24

first order, second order, and third order neurons

Question 25

what conducts ascending impulses from the brain stem or spinal cord to the thalamus on the opposite side of the brian?

Answer 25

second order neurons

Question 26

what conducts ascending impulses from the thalamus to motor neurons?

Answer 26

third order neurons

Question 27

what does it mean to occur on the opposite side of the brain?

Answer 27

decussation

Question 28

what are the two neurons in the pathway from the brain to skeletal muscle?

Answer 28

upper and lower motor neurons

Question 29

what extends from the brain to the brainstem or spinal cord?

Answer 29

upper motor neuron

Question 30

what passes via cranial or spinal nerves to the neuromuscular junction to innervate skeletal muscle?

Answer 30

lower motor neurons