Overview of Sensation and Somatic Senses

Question 1

It is the conscious or subconscious awareness of changes in the external or internal environment.

Answer 1

Sensation

Question 2

This type of sense include tactile sensations and activities from organs.

Answer 2

General senses

Question 3

What type of sense are visceral senses?

Answer 3

General senses

Question 4

The type of sense that include smell, taste, vision, hearing, and equilibrium.

Answer 4

Special senses

Question 5

What needs to occur in order to activate certain sensory neurons?

Answer 5

A stimulus or change in environment

Question 6

What converts the stimulus to an electric signal and can produce nerve impulses?

Answer 6

A sensory receptor

Question 7

From the neural pathway, where does the nerve impulse start and end?

Answer 7

From the sensory receptor to the brain

Question 8

What receives and integrates nerve impulses into a sensation?

Answer 8

A region of the brain or thalamus

Question 9

What is the conscious awareness and

interpretation of sensations?

Answer 9

Perception

Question 10

Perception is a function of which region of the brain?

Answer 10

Cerebral cortex

Question 11

It is a decrease in sensation during a prolonged stimulus.

Answer 11

Adaption

Question 12

What are the three classifications of sensory receptors [Structure]?

Answer 12

Free nerve endings, Encapsulated nerve endings, and separate cells

Question 13

Bare dendrites associated with pain, thermal, tickle and itch.

Answer 13

Free nerve endings

Question 14

Dendrites enclosed in a connective tissue capsule associated with pressure, and vibration.

Answer 14

Encapsulated nerve endings

Question 15

Sensory receptors are classified into two.

Answer 15

Structure and Function

Question 16

This sensory receptor detects mechanical pressure; tactile sensation, proprioception, equilibrium.

Answer 16

Mechanoreceptors

Question 17

Receptor cells that synapses with first-order neurons; located in the retina, inner ear, and taste buds.

Answer 17

Separate cells

Question 18

This sensory receptor detects changes in temperature.

Answer 18

Thermoreceptors

Question 19

This sensory receptor responds to painful stimuli ..

Answer 19

Nociceptors

Question 20

This sensory receptor detects light striking the retina of the eye.

Answer 20

Photoreceptors

Question 21

This sensory receptor detects chemicals in the mouth, nose, and body fluids.

Answer 21

Chemoreceptors

Question 22

This sensory receptor senses osmotic pressure of body fluids

Answer 22

Osmoreceptors

Question 23

Which mechanoreceptor detects fine touch? (Type I or Type II)

Answer 23

Type I cutaneous mechanoreceptor

Question 24

Which mechanoreceptor detects crude touch? (Type I or Type II)

Answer 24

Type II cutaneous mechanoreceptor

Question 25

What type of touch does the hair root plexus detect?

Answer 25

Crude touch

Question 26

It arises from the stimulation of sensory receptors.

Answer 26

Somatic senses

Question 27

[What type of tactile sensation?]

Receptors in skin and subcutaneous layer and cutaneous mechanoreceptors.

(Choices: Touch, Pressure, Vibration, or Itch and tickle)

Answer 27

Tactile sensation: touch

Question 28

[What type of tactile sensation?]

Deeper sensations and internally around joints,
tendons, muscles, external genitalia, etc

(Choices: Touch, Pressure, Vibration, or Itch and tickle)

Answer 28

Tactile sensation: Pressure

Question 29

[What type of tactile sensation?]

Detects high and low frequency sensations.

(Choices: Touch, Pressure, Vibration, or Itch and tickle)

Answer 29

Tactile sensation: Vibration

Question 30

[What type of tactile sensation?]

Stimulation of free nerve endings or when someone touches you.

(Choices: Touch, Pressure, Vibration, or Itch and tickle)

Answer 30

Tactile sensation: Itch and tickle

Question 31

The study of the eye and its disorders.

Answer 31

Opthalmology

Question 32

The science that deals with the ears, nose, and throat, and their disorders.

Answer 32

Otorhinolaryngology