Senses

Question 1

What are the specialized cells that monitor conditions inside or outside of the body?

Answer 1

Sensory Receptors

Question 2

What’s the area monitored by a single receptor cell?

Answer 2

Receptive Field

Question 3

What is the conscious awareness of a sensation is called?

Answer 3

Perception

Question 4

What’s the reduction in the sensitivity in presence of a constant stimulus called?

Answer 4

Adaptation

Question 5

What are the four classes of general sensory receptors?

Answer 5

Nociceptors, Thermoreceptors, Mechanoreceptors, Chemoreceptors

Question 6

What do nociceptors respond to?

Answer 6

Pain

Question 7

What do thermoreceptors respond to?

Answer 7

Temp

Question 8

What do mechanoreceptors respond to?

Answer 8

Touch

Question 9

What do chemoreceptors respond to?

Answer 9

Chemical stimuli

Question 10

Whats the sensation that happens when the burning or aching pain that is transmitted by unmyelinated axons?

Answer 10

Slow pain

Question 11

The perception of pain in an unrelated area of the body is called:

Answer 11

Referred pain

Question 12

What are taste and smell are examples of?

Answer 12

Special senses that use chemoreceptors

Question 13

What are the three classes of mechanoreceptors?

Answer 13

Tactile, Baroreceptors, and Proprioceptors

Question 14

What do tactile mechanoreceptors respond to?

Answer 14

Touch

Question 15

What do baroreceptors respond to?

Answer 15

Pressure

Question 16

What do proprioreceptors resond to?

Answer 16

Positions (joints)

Question 17

What does the term olfaction represent?

Answer 17

“Smell”

Question 18

What are the regenerative stem cells in the olfactory epithelium called?

Answer 18

Basal Cells

Question 19

What are chemicals in the air that stimulate olfactory receptors?

Answer 19

Odorants

Question 20

Why do we have emotional and behavioral responses to smell?

Answer 20

Odors take a direct route to the limbic system, which then goes to emotions and memory

Question 21

What is the only sensory information not routed through the thalamus?

Answer 21

Smell

Question 22

Where are gustatory receptors found?

Answer 22

They are found in the gustatory cells of the taste buds

Question 23

What are the five primary taste sensations?

Answer 23

Sweet, Sour, Bitter, Salty, and Umami

Question 24

Where are the greatest number of taste buds found?

Answer 24

The back of the tongue

Question 25

What are the structures that protect and keep surface of eye lubricated?

Answer 25

The eyelids

Question 26

What's the fancy term for Pink Eye?

Answer 26

Conjunctivitis

Question 27

What is the pathway of tears?

Answer 27

Lacrimal gland, lacrimal canals, lacrimal sac, nasolacrimal duct

Question 28

What is the approximate weigh of a human eye?

Answer 28

8g

Question 29

What are the three layers of the eye wall from outside to inside?

Answer 29

1. Fibrous layer 2. Vascular layer 3. Inner layer

Question 30

What is another name for the inner layer of an eye?

Answer 30

Retina

Question 31

What's the part of the eye that contains blood vessels, pigment cells, and two layers of pupillary muscles that change the size of the pupil?

Answer 31

Iris

Question 32

Where is aqueous humor found?

Answer 32

Anterior Cavity

Question 33

What is meant by “accommodation”

Answer 33

Changing the shape of the lens to keep the focal length at a constant

Question 34

What adjusts the shape of the lens for focusing?

Answer 34

Suspensory ligaments

Question 35

What are the two types of photoreceptors?

Answer 35

Rods and cones

Question 36

What are used in bright light to detect color?

Answer 36

Cones

Question 37

Where are the highest number of cones found?

Answer 37

Fovea

Question 38

What's the disease when lens loses its transparency?

Answer 38

Cataracts

Question 39

How does the lens focus the visual image on photoreceptors?

Answer 39

By changing it's shape

Question 40

What's the process that the ciliary muscle and lens use for distant vision?

Answer 40

Ciliary muscle is relaxed, and lens flattened

Question 41

What is hyperopia?

Answer 41

Farsightedness

Question 42

What's myopia?

Answer 42

Nearsightedness

Question 43

What are the three different types of cones?

Answer 43

Red, Blue, and Green

Question 44

Is colorblindness more common in males or females?

Answer 44

Males

Question 45

What's the most common form of colorblindness?

Answer 45

Red- Green

Question 46

What are the ossicles?

Answer 46

Bones in the middle ear

Question 47

What are the bones in the middle ear?

Answer 47

Malleus, Incus, and Stapes

Question 48

Where do the ossicles connect?

Answer 48

The ear drum, to the oval window

Question 49

Where are the receptors for hearing located?

Answer 49

Cochlear Duct

Question 50

What is the order in which structures transfer sound?

Answer 50

Auditory canal, tympanic membrane, malleus, incus, stapes oval window, to the inner ear

Question 51

44. All equilibrium sensations are provided by hair cells of the ________

Answer 51

Vestibular Complex

Question 52

What is pitch?

Answer 52

Pitch is a frequency determined by which part of cochlear duct is stimulated

Question 53

What is volume?

Answer 53

Volume is the intensity determined by how many hair cells are activated at that site

Question 54

Whats the type of deafness resulting from blockage of vibrations in middle ear?

Answer 54

Conductive deafness