7 Other Sensory Systems

Question 0

The psychological experience of amplitude

Answer 0

Loudness

Question 1

Periodic compressions of air water or other media

Answer 1

Soundwaves

Question 2

The number of compressions per second measured in hertz

Answer 2

Frequency

Question 3

The psychological experience of frequency

Answer 3

Pitch

Question 4

Range of frequencies in adults

Answer 4

15 hz- 20,000 hz

Question 5

Includes the pinna
helps as locate the source of sound
Reflect the soundwaves into the middle ear

Answer 5

The outer ear

Question 6

Tympanic membrane connects to three tiny bones that transmit vibrations to oval window m

Malleus (hammer)
Incus (anvil)
Stapes (stirrup)

Answer 6

Middle ear

Question 7

Snail shapes structure in inner ear containing three long fluid filled tunnels
I’m

Answer 7

Cochlea

Question 8

Lie between basilar membrane of the cochlea in one side and tectorial membrane on the other

Answer 8

Auditory receptors (hair cells)

Question 9

Basilar membrane resembles strings of a piano, each area along membrane us tuned to a specific frequency

Answer 9

Place theory

Question 10

Basilar membrane vibrates in synchrony with a sound causing auditory nerve axons to produce action potentials at the sand frequency

Answer 10

Frequency theory

Question 11

Combined modified versions of both theories
Low- frequency theory
Hugh- place theory

Answer 11

Current theory

Question 12

Audits nerve as a whole produces volleys of impulses for sounds up to 4,000 per sec even thou no individual axon approaches that frequency

Answer 12

Volley principle

Question 13

What pathway auditory

Answer 13

Patterns of sound

Question 14

Where pathway visual so cortex

Answer 14

Location of sound

Question 15

Results from disease, infection, or tumorous bone growth , which prevent middle ear from transmitting doing waves properly to the cochlea

Answer 15

Conductive deafness (middle ear deafness)

Question 16

Result from danger to the cochlea, hair cells, or auditory nerve

Answer 16

Nerve deafness (inner ear deafness)

Question 17

Ringing in the ears

Answer 17

Tinnitus

Question 18

For high frequency sounds with wavelength. Shorter than the width of the head, the head creates a sound shadow- makes the sound louder for the closer ear

Answer 18

Sound localization

Question 19

Difference in time of arrival at the two ears

Answer 19

Time of arrival

Question 20

A sound coming from anywhere other that straight ahead or straight behind reached the two ears at different phases of the sound wave

Answer 20

Phase difference

Question 21

Respond to pressure, bending, or other distortion a of a receptor

Answer 21

Mechanical senses

Question 22

The system that detects the position movement of the head

Answer 22

Vestibular sensation

Question 23

The sensation of the body and its movements

Answer 23

Somatosensory system

Question 24

Heat receptors respond to

Answer 24

Capsaicin

Question 25

Coolness receptors respond to

Answer 25

Menthol

Question 26

The experience evoked by a harmful stimulus, directs our attention and holds it

Answer 26

Pain

Question 27

Thicker and faster axons

Answer 27

Stronger pain

Question 28

Thinner and slower axons

Answer 28

Duller pain

Question 29

``` These areas react not to the sensation but to the emotional associations Thalamus Amygdala Hippocampus Prefrontal cortex Cingulate cortex ```

Answer 29

Sympathetic pain

Question 30

Receptors that act by blocking release of substance P

Answer 30

Opiate

Question 31

Spinal cord neurons that receive messages from pain receptors also receive messages from touch receptors and from axons descending from the brain

Answer 31

Gate theory

Question 32

Each re legit tesoinds go a limited range of stimuli, and the meaning depends entirely on which neurons are active

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Label-line principle

Question 33

Each receptor tesoinds to a wider range of stimuli, and a given response by a given a in means little except in comparison o what other axons are doing

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Across-fiber pattern principle

Question 34

Taste is located in the

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Endopiriform cortex

Question 35

Recoveries are in taste buds located in | Bumps on tongue

Answer 35

Papillae

Question 36

Reflects the fatigue of receptos sensitive to sour taste

Answer 36

Adaptation

Question 37

Reduces response to one taste after exposure to another

Answer 37

Cross-adaptation

Question 38

Depends on a pattern of responses across fibers, not a system of pure labelled lines

Answer 38

Taste

Question 39

Taste nerves project to the

Answer 39

Nucleus of the tractus solitaries in the medulla

Question 40

Responds to touch stimulation on tongue

Answer 40

Somatosensory cortex

Question 41

The primary taste cortex

Answer 41

Insula

Question 42

Have high sensitivity to all tastes and mouth sensations

Answer 42

Super tasters

Question 43

Neurons responsible for smell

Answer 43

Olfactory receptors

Question 44

Why do we have so many types of olfactory receptors?

Answer 44

Olfaction processes enormous variety of airborne chemicals that do not range along single continuum

Question 45

Where does olfactory bulb send axons in the brain?

Answer 45

To the olfactory area of cerebral cortex

Question 46

Set of receptors located near olfactory receptors

Answer 46

vomeronasal organ

Question 47

Specialized to respond only to ____ - chemicals released Bryan animal that affect behavior of other members of the same species, especially sexually

Answer 47

Pheromones

Question 48

The experience of one sense in response to stimulation of a different sense

Answer 48

Synethesia