Test 1

Question 1

WHAT IS A STIMULUS?

Answer 1

A detectable change in the environment, anything that alters resting membrane potential of first order neuron

Question 2

What is a sensation?

Answer 2

Any stimulus that is process by the central nervous system, any stimulus that alters the resting membrane potential of the second order neuron

Question 3

What is perception?

Answer 3

Conscious awareness of a sensation

Question 4

What are the general senses?

Answer 4

Touch & vibration, temperature, pain, proprioception, pressure,& some chemoreceptors

Question 5

What are the receptors for touch& vibration?

Answer 5

Tactile receptors

Question 6

What are the receptors for temperature?

Answer 6

Thermoreceptors

Question 7

What are the receptors for pain?

Answer 7

Nociceptor’S

Question 8

What are the receptors for proprioception?

Answer 8

Proprioceptor’S

Question 9

What are the receptors for pressure?

Answer 9

Baroreceptor’S

Question 10

What are the receptors for chemoreceptors?

Answer 10

Internal chemoreceptors

Question 11

What are the special senses?

Answer 11

Olfaction, gestation, vision, audition, & equilibrium

Question 12

What is nociception?

Answer 12

Detection of pain. There are very few nociceptors in theviscera

Question 13

What are type A fibers?

Answer 13

They do fast or sharp pain

Question 14

What are type C fibers?

Answer 14

They do slow or dull pain

Question 15

What is referred pain?

Answer 15

Pain from an organ or a area of the body that is detected as coming from a different area