Concept Quiz 4.4

Question 1

Sensations of body position, touch, skin temperature, and pain are referred to as _____.

Answer 1

Somatosensorial

Question 2

Information about touch travels from the skin directly to the ______.

Answer 2

Spinal Cord

Question 3

Although athletes and no athletes share similar pain _____, these groups are quite different in their ____ of pain.

Answer 3

Thresholds; tolerance

Question 4

No other sensory modality is as dramatic by culture, context, and experience as our sense of _____.

Answer 4

Pain

Question 5

What may account for Doug’s phantom limb sensation?

Answer 5

Re-organization of the somatosensory cortex

Question 6

Patients who self-administer morphine for pain require _____ medication than patients who receive injections from hospital staff

Answer 6

Less

Question 7

The movement of hair cells in the vestibular system results in the production of signals in the auditory nerve. Where do the axons of the auditory nerve, then form connections?

Answer 7

Medulla and Cerebellum

Question 8

While hanging up a picture, Joy hits her thumb with a hammer, causing agonizing pain. Joy immediately pops out her cheeks and blows air onto her song over and over again. Her roommate, Bethany laughs, and then remarks, “Are you drying nail polish or hoping to blow away the pain?” However, Joy time does, in fact, feel better. Why?

Answer 8

She is activating a competing sensory pathway, which dilutes the amount of pain information getting to the brain

Question 9

People who _____ are able to tolerate higher pain than those who do not.

Answer 9

Participate in contact sports

Question 10

Proprioception is ______.

Answer 10

The knowledge of where one’s body is in space

Question 11

What does the vestibular system do?

Answer 11

It provides us with information about body position and movement