Sensation and Reflex Arcs

Question 1

What are sensitive to changes in the body’s external and include senses such as taste, smell, vision, hearing, pain, touch, pressure, temperature, and hair movement.

Answer 1

Exteroceptor

Question 2

What respond to changes in blood pressure, fluid composition, balance, acceleration, and body position and movement.

Answer 2

Interoceptors

Question 3

Reflexes are rapid, predictable, and involuntary motor responses to stimuli that are medicated over neutral pathways called

Answer 3

Reflex arcs

Question 4

The type of stimuli to which a receptor is most sensitive is called

Answer 4

Adequate stimulus

Question 5

If a stimulus strength remains constant and is not removed from the receptor, the receptor may become progressively less sensitive to the presence of the stimulus . This phenomenon is known____

Answer 5

Adaption

Question 6

The sensation perceived after removal of the stimulus is called ____

Answer 6

Afterimage

Question 7

The baseline skin temperature, or _________ is approximately 33 Celsius (91 F) under normal conditions.

Answer 7

physiological zero

Question 8

Where a very hot stimulus applied to a cold spot on the skin feels cold because it activates cold fibers.

Answer 8

Paradoxical cold

Question 9

Describes relationships in the intensity of visual, auditory. or cutaneous sensory information

Answer 9

Web Fechner principle

Question 10

Those that involve involuntary control of skeletal muscle

Answer 10

Somatic reflexes