Peripheral Nervous System 1

Question 1

Consciously interpreting the world around you using your sensory system is known as?

Answer 1

Perception

Question 2

Interpretation can either go the __________ or ________

Answer 2

A) Spinal cord
Or
B) Brain stem and upwards

Question 3

The energy form of stimulus is called

Answer 3

Modality

Question 4

Every receptor has its own modality (energy form)
Yes or No

Answer 4

Yes

Question 5

What is the energy form converted into?

Answer 5

It’s converted into Action potential

Question 6

Touch receptors will have __________ as it’s energy form (modality)

Answer 6

Touch

Question 7

When light photons are converted into sensory modality, it’s called

Answer 7

Transduction

Question 8

The change from one modality to modality is called

Answer 8

Transduction

Question 9

The conversion of one energy form to another energy form is called

Answer 9

Transduction

Question 10

Light made into an image by the eye is what type of transduction

Answer 10

Visual transduction

Question 11

How does the conversion happen/how is the message produce?

Answer 11

It’s produces thru action potential, which is how they get to the CNS.

Question 12

Action potential can take 2 distinct forms of generation?

Answer 12

1. Receptor potential
2. Generator potential

Question 13

What’s helps to avoid wastage of energy?

Answer 13

Receptor adaptation

Question 14

The receptor adaptation can either be ________ or _________z

Answer 14

Slow or rapid

Question 15

2 major types of receptor adaptation?

Answer 15

1. Tonic adaptation
2. Phasic adaptation

Question 16

What type of adaptation fires immediately and then slowly adapt to maintain homeostasis?

Answer 16

Tonic Adaptation

Question 17

What type of adaptation is seen in muscle & joint receptor and pressure receptors?

Answer 17

Tonic Adaptation

Question 18

What type of adaptation is fast and rapid?

Answer 18

Phasic adaptation

Question 19

The type of adaptation where homeostasis is not disturbed is called?

Answer 19

Phasic adaptation

Question 20

Touch receptors/smell receptor/tactile responses/olfactory receptors are all examples of what kind of adaptation?

Answer 20

Phasic adaptation

Question 21

The adaptation working to maintain homeostasis is

Answer 21

Tonic Adaptation

Question 22

What’s always follow a pathway?

Answer 22

Receptors

Question 23

Which neuron is the first neuron in the somatosensory pathway?

Answer 23

Afferent Neurons

Question 24

Which is the first order Neurons?

Answer 24

Afferent Neurons

Question 25

There are 2 places where a pain reception can stop, what are they?

Answer 25

@ the spinal cord
Or
@ the Brain stem

Question 26

What forms the starting point

Answer 26

Receptor

Question 27

Pathway is also known as

Answer 27

Labeled lines

Question 28

Each receptor have a unique labelled line, True or False

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Labelled line is also known as

Answer 29

Chain of neuron

Question 30

Stimulus - ______1_______ - Afferent (first order Neurons) - _____2_____ - 2nd order Neurons - ______3_______ - high cortex (3rd order neuron)

Answer 30

1. Receptors
2. Brain stem/spinal cord
3. Thalamus

Question 31

Sensory neuron located either in the spinal cord or the brain stem(medulla oblongata)

Answer 31

Second order sensory neuron

Question 32

Sensory neuron located on the thalamus?

Answer 32

Third order sensory neuron

Question 33

Which sensory neuron synapses eith the higher cortex?

Answer 33

Third order sensory neuron

Question 34

Where are all the sensations refined?

Answer 34

Thalamus

Question 35

Does all receptors have the feature named Acuity? Yes or No

Answer 35

Yes

Question 36

The discriminative ability of good and bad is refered to as

Answer 36

Acuity

Question 37

Acuity is influenced by 2 major concepts?

Answer 37

1. Receptive field size
2. Lateral inhibition

Question 38

What is majorly influenced by field size and lateral inhibition?

Answer 38

Acuity

Question 39

Fields that are served by 2 different neurons is

Answer 39

2 points reception

Question 40

One big field and has one afferent Neuron is

Answer 40

One point reception

Question 41

Field size can either be ______ or _____

Answer 41

One point or 2 points receptions.

Question 42

What ensures that CNS is not crowded with all the reception but takes up only what is useful?

Answer 42

Acuity

Question 43

The eye receptor uses ______________ to form borders of images which help to sharpen images.

Answer 43

Lateral inhibition

Question 44

The ear receptor uses this to sift through all the noise and concentrate and sharpen the particular sound its aiming for..

Answer 44

Lateral inhibition

Question 45

Receptive field size and lateral inhibition majorly influence what?

Answer 45

Acuity