Chapter 12 Flashcards

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What are the sensory neurons in the skin called?

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Somatic Sensations

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Which pain receptors are stimulated when you immediately hurt yourself?

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Fast pain receptors

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Which pain receptors send pain signals days or weeks after you are hurt?

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Slow pain receptors

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What are stretch receptors associated with?

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joints, muscles, and tendons

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What are the 5 special senses?

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Hearing, balance, taste, smell, vision

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Our sense of hearing helps us distinguish between sounds of different…?

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amplitude and tone

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What is amplitude and tone?

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amplitude is loudness and tone is frequency

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Which part of the ear do sound waves travel down the auditory canal, and hit the ear drum causing it to vibrate?

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outer ear

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In the middle ear, vibrations of the tympanic membrane cause vibrations in 3 small bones called?

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malleus(hammer), incus (anvil), and stapes(stirrup)

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What does the stapes vibrate against?

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the oval window

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Where is all the vibrational energy that hits the tympanic membrane focused on?

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the oval window

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What does the eustachian tubes connect?

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middle ear and pharynx

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What opens the eustachian tubes?

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yawning or chewing

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What can cause deafness?

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middle ear infections

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In the inner ear, the hair cell mechanoreceptors within the cochlea convert sound vibrations into what?

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nervous impulses

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What are the three fluid filled canals within cochlea?

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Vestibular canal
Cochlear duct
tympanic canal

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Where is the organ of corti?

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within the cochlear duct

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What does the organ of corti consist of?

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tectorial membrane
hair cells
basilar membrane
auditory nerves

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The pressure waves created in oval window in fluid of what canal to canal?

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vestibular canal and travel around to tympanic canal.

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in 2nd step of inner ear, the waves are formed across which membrane?

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basilar membrane

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What does the vibration in the basilar membrane cause?

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sound vibration frequency

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What cells are part of the basilar membrane?

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hair cells

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The tips of the hair brush against which membrane?

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tectorial membrane

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Does the tectorial membrane vibrate?

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NO

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What do the hair cells stimulate when neurotransmitters are released?
sensory neurons
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What happens in the last step in the inner ear?
brain interprets neural impulses as sound
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The parts of the basilar membrane have same or different natural resonances?
different
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Basilar membrane near oval window has low or high frequency?
High
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Low frequency noise is when basilar membrane is near the oval window or far from oval window?
far
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basilar membrane far from oval window is more?
flexible and wider
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basilar membrane near oval window is?
stiff and narrow
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The brain interprets neural signals arriving from different parts of the basilar membrane as what?
different tones (notes)
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More vigorous vibrations of basilar membrane means?
louder noises ,more energy, more hair cells release neurotransmitter more frequently, and more stimulation of neurons
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Less vigorous vibrations of basilar membrane means?
softer noises, less energy, less hair cells release neurotransmitters less frequently, and less stimulation of neurons
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What is caused with sound vibrations do not get to the inner ear?
conduction deafness
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What causes eardrum/oval window to be ruptured and bones in ear to not move properly?
conduction deafness
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What do hearing aids do?
cause vibrations in skull making vibrations in cochlea then hearing
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What id damaged in nerve deafness?
cochlear nerves and brain
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What happens when hairs in cochlea are lost?
partial deafness
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Can minor damage be repaired?
YES
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Hair cells die= minor or major damage?
major
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When you hear sounds that do not really exist and the hairs have been damaged and some are bent, what is this called?
ringing ears after loud environment
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When do the muscles pull bones away from eardrum/ oval window?
ear bone reflex
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What does the vestibular canal consist of?
3 semicircular canals and vestibule
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Semicircular canals are for sensing what?
sensing rotational movement
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Vestibule is for sensing what?
sensing head position, gravity, and acceleration/deceleration
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What type of movement is detected in semicircular canals in 3 planes?
3-D movement detected
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Cupula with hair cells present at base (ampulla) of each canal. True or False?
True
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Vestibule is oriented horizantally or vertically or both?
both
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In vestibule senses, hairs are embedded in what material and what position?
gelatinous material on bottom
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In vestibule senses, otoliths are embedded in what material and what position?
gelatinous material on top
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When does gelatinous move first and otoliths have inertia and respond slower?
acceleration
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Deceleration has inertia or momentum?
momentum
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Does visual input play a role in maintaining balance?
YES
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Signals for maintaining balance come from which stretch receptors?
joint, muscle, and tendon stretch receptors
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Specialized structures in inner ear: ?
vestibule
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When messages are conflicting, what can we get?
motion sickness
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How many taste cells and how many supporting cells?
25 and 25
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Taste buds on large ----- of tongue.
Papillae
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------- on taste cells have receptor proteins to bind to certain chemicals that later stimulate sensory neurons.
Hairs
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What are taste buds?
chemoreceptors that bind with dissolved substances
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What are the 5 taste categories?
sweet, salty, sour, bitter, umami (broth)
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Salt responds to what ions?
sodium
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Sour responds to what ions?
hydrogen
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Which taste category responds to amino acids?
umami
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Which taste category responds to various chemicals?
bitter
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Which taste category are we most sensitive to and at which part of the tongue?
Bitter and at the back of the tongue
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Smell is ------- receptor cell.
olfactory
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Each olfactory receptor cell produces a protein that can bind with ------ molecules.
odorant
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How many different types of olfactory receptor cells do humans have?
over 300
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More molecules binding= more neurons firing more frequently=?
stronger smell
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Can a single odorant molecule lead to a neuron being stimulated?
YES
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What we commonly refer to as how food tastes depends on two senses. What are they? and why?
taste and smell | Because chewed food releases chemicals that contact olfactory receptors via pharynx.
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Eyes focus light onto specialized --------- cells of the retina?
photoreceptor
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What are the photoreceptor cells of the retina?
rod and cone cells
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Photoreceptors convert what type of energy to nerve impulses that are interpreted by the brain?
light energy
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What is sclera?
whites of eyes
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Where does most bending of light before light hits the retina occur at?
cornea
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What is the irregularities in cornea or lens called?
Astigmatism
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What fixes nearsightnedness and astigmatism by burning away part of cornea?
LASIK laser surgery
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Iris is a colored ------ that controls the amount of light entering the eye.
muscle
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What is the opening that allows light in called?
pupil
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When is the pupil larger?
in dark
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When is the pupil smaller?
in bright sun
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What is made of layers of transparent proteins?
lens
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What adjusts shape for close or far away objects?
lens
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When does lens get thicker and ciliary muscles contract?
close objects
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When does lens get thinner and ciliary muscles relax?
far away objects
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Farsighted have eyes longer or shorter than normal?
shorter
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Prolonged close up work can cause nearsightedness or farsightedness?
nearsightedness
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Nearsightedness or farsightedness is caused by improper eye shape?
farsightedness
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At what age does the lens start to lose its flexibility (focusing becomes harder)?
about 40 years old
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At what age does the lens lose all its flexibility?
at age 70 years old
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When proteins of the lens progressively lose their transparency
cataracts
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What can cause cataracts?
aging
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Does the retina contain photoreceptor cells?
yes
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What colors are cones most sensitive to?
yellow green blue/violet
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What has high amounts of cones but no rods?
fovea in retina
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What happens in blind spot?
optic nerve goes to brain
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Many rod cells/ ganglion cell gives what vision?
blurrier vision
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Fewer cones cells/ ganglion cells give what vision?
clearer vision
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As little as how many cone cells/ganglion cells give the clearest vision?
5
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Which cells are more sensitive to light? and by how many times?
rod cells by 300 times
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Which cells only are sensitive to faint light?
rods
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When does the brain interpret ratios of the 3 cone types?
mixed colors
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Which disorder affecting the retina is due to blow to head/eye and is an emergency?
Retinal Detachment
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Which disorder affecting the retina is associated with certain cone cells present in low amounts or are missing completely?
color blindness
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Which eye disorder causes blurred vision, stars, and lack of peripheral vision results?
retinal detachment
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Which eye disorder is associated with fluid in aqueous humor that no longer drains properly and causes pressure on capillaries supplying retina?
Glaucoma
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Which eye disorder is a sex linked genetic disorder?
color blindess
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Which eye disorder can cause retinal and nerve cell death?
Glaucoma
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Binocular vision helps us determine how close or far away sth is?
far
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When does each eye receive slightly different images?
Binocular vision
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At the side of the head, sound waves hit one ear then the next or both at the same time/
one ear then the next
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Above and behind the head, the sound waves hit one ear then the next or both at the same time?
both at the same time