Other Senses

Question 1

What do olfactory chemoreceptors detect?

Answer 1

Aerosolized chemicals

Question 2

True/False: Smell pass through the thalamus.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

What are pheromones?

Answer 3

Chemicals given off by animals that have an effect on social foraging, and sexual behavior

Question 4

List all 5 types of taste

Answer 4

Sweet, sour, salty, bitter, umamai

Question 5

What does somatosensation detect? Where is it?

Answer 5

Located in the parietal lobe. Somatosensation referes to four touch modalitites: Pressure, vibration, pain, temperature

Question 6

Define two-point threshold.

Answer 6

Minimum distance necessary between 2 points of stimulation on the skin such that the points will be felt as two distinct stimuli

Question 7

Define physiological zero

Answer 7

The normal temperature of skin to which objects are compared to

Question 8

Define nociceptors

Answer 8

Pain reception. Gate theory of pain. Decrease JND for pain

Question 9

What is kinesthetic sense?

Answer 9

Proprioception