Chapter 6 Questions

Question 1

After spending several days in a deep meditative state, members of a remote tribal… breaking things what most likely explains why they feel no pain

Answer 1

Belief induced analgesia

Question 2

The major gate in the gate control theory of pain is the point where pain sensory neurons enter the ___ and synapse on the second order pain neurons

Answer 2

Spinal cord and brain stem

Question 3

The____ organ is found in the most mammals and contains receptor cells that specialize in responding to pheromones

Answer 3

Vomeronasal

Question 4

_____ proposes that detecting a stimulus is based on both the physical intensity of the stimulus and the psychological states of the perceiver

Answer 4

Signal detection theory

Question 5

Research on pain sensitivity following injury suggests that generally____

Answer 5

Heightened sensitivity to pain at the injury site because of changes sensitivity in CNS

Question 6

The ossicles increase the pressure exerted by the sound waves on the inner ear by funneling the pressure from the_____

Answer 6

Tympanic membrane to the smaller oval window

Question 7

Individual vowel and consonant sounds that make up words are called?

Answer 7

Phonemes

Question 8

Which statement concerning bekesys traveling wave theory is true?

Answer 8

timing of vibration on the basilar membrane for sounds below about 4000 Hz

Question 9

Which statement is an actual research finding that supports bitter taste

Answer 9

Pregnant women are more sensitive

Question 10

If a pianos notes were getting softer and higher pitched, its ____ as measured in ____ would be decreasing and its ____ as measured in ____ would be increasing

Answer 10

Amplitude, decibels, frequency, hertz

Question 11

Experiments have shown that peoples ability to identify foods by flavor

Answer 11

Declines when both nostrils are shut

Question 12

All the areas below are areas of the brain that are involved in the experience of pain except, the___

Answer 12

Visual cortex

Question 13

A cochlear implant is a hearing aid that:

Answer 13

Transforms sounds into electrical impulses that stimulate auditory nerves

Question 14

Genevieve was on a hike and got attacked, she felt no pain why?

Answer 14

Stress induced analgesia

Question 15

thin, porous bone in which the axons of the olfactory sensory neurons pass through

Answer 15

Cribiform plate

Question 16

You is studying the sense of smell and the olfactory area. What part of the brain should Yu be focusing on

Answer 16

Temporal Lobe

Question 17

Larissa prefers to drink a big cup of tea and Jayden prefers a smaller cup, they vary alone ___ dimension

Answer 17

quantitative

Question 18

Where can free nerve endings be found

Answer 18

wherever pain is sensed

Question 19

Which statement is an explanation for the trigger of phantom-limb pain

Answer 19

The lack of sensory input removes a source of inhibition to the brain

Question 20

the neurons near the proximal end of the basilar membrane fire rapidly, while other neurons on the membrane barely fires. The brain interprets this as?

Answer 20

A high pitched sound

Question 21

Josh is working in the yard and hears a bug, before he hears the bug the receptor cells must produce an electrical change in response to the sound which is what

Answer 21

Transduction

Question 22

Andrea is studying psychophysics. She holds 30 marbles, what law should she use

Answer 22

Webers law

Question 23

Before the 1920s, scientists believed that basilar membrane acted like harp strings. George bekesy discovered the membrane behaves like:

Answer 23

A bed sheet

Question 24

In pain reduction which is most likely to mediate the placebo effect

Answer 24

Endorphins

Question 25

Corey goes to the doctor because his right ear hurts. What part of Coreys ear ruptured?

Answer 25

Tympanic membrane

Question 26

All statements concerning the senses are true except

Answer 26

Each sense is capable of producing conscious sensory experiences

Question 27

Which occurs because different receptors are responding to energy

Answer 27

Coding of stimulus quality

Question 28

All are qualitative dimensions of sensory coding except

Answer 28

Loudness of two tones at the same pitch

Question 29

Demetria listens to music, sound waves are transported inward to her

Answer 29

Cochle

Question 30

People with the condition known as asymbolia for pain

Answer 30

Perceive painful stimuli but don’t feel a normal desire

Question 31

Sensory adaptation is mediated by

Answer 31

Receptor cells and the central nervous system

Question 32

Older people and fire alarms

Answer 32

Sense of smell declines

Question 33

_____ proposes that detecting a stimulus is based on both the physical intensity of the Stimulus

Answer 33

Signal detection theory

Question 34

If hair cells got destroyed what’s the most noticeable difference

Answer 34

Loss in ability to hear high frequency

Question 35

What can work on humans not rats

Answer 35

Belief induced analgesia

Question 36

Position on the basilar membrane at which the sound waves peak

Answer 36

Frequency of the sound

Question 37

According to webers law difference for stimulus is?

Answer 37

Constant proportion of the magnitude of the original

Question 38

___ are fast conducting fibers

Answer 38

A delta fibers

Question 39

Which describes transduction

Answer 39

Hair cells on the basilar membrane bend tectorial

Question 40

According to georg bekesy the auditory system codes pitch in terms of

Answer 40

Rate of firing from various places

Question 41

Neurons in the primary auditory cortex are tonotopically organized which means

Answer 41

Each neuron is systematically arranged

Question 42

Sergi and Natasha’s offspring would benefit from

Answer 42

Having the different mhcs

Question 43

What is true about PAG

Answer 43

electrical simulation can reduce chronic pain

Question 44

psychophysics is?

Answer 44

physical stimuli and sensory experience

Question 45

pheromones

Answer 45

Chemical substance that is released to promote behavioral response.

Question 46

sensation is described as?

Answer 46

physiological response

Question 47

sensory adaptation is mediated by?

Answer 47

changes in the central nervous system

Question 48

gate control theory of pain

Answer 48

the experience of pain depends on the extent

Question 49

Research finding concerning the philology of smell indicate from the glomeruli

Answer 49

The limbic system and hypothalamus for emotion

Question 50

what part of the ear is designed to receive sound waves and funnel them?

Answer 50

outer ear

Question 51

relationship between chewing and swallowing is?

Answer 51

chewing and swallowing push air from the mouth

Question 52

Fragrance in the kitchen from Rasindu?

Answer 52

sensation, perception

Question 53

Trash can fell in front of people who can detect it

Answer 53

Left or right

Question 54

what recently got added to primary taste?

Answer 54

Fat

Question 55

____ is an illusion in which people hear missing sounds of words

Answer 55

phonemic restoration

Question 56

if a sounds amplitude were increasing and frequency decreasing what is the pitched

Answer 56

louder and lower

Question 57

preservation of neural responses to a stimulus and info

Answer 57

sensory coding

Question 58

sensory areas in the cerebral cortex

Answer 58

receive signals sent along sense-specific pathways in the central nervous system

Question 59

which part of the olfactory system contains the sensitive ends of olfactory sensory neurons

Answer 59

olfactory epithelium

Question 60

As mask listens to Beethovens 5th symphony on the radio, this electrical preservation of both what is this referred to

Answer 60

sensory coding

Question 61

free nerve endings are sensitive terminals of the receptors for the sense of:

Answer 61

pain

Question 62

which occurs because different receptors in a given sensory system are tuned to respond to somewhat different forms of energy

Answer 62

coding of stimulus quality

Question 63

the term endorphin:

Answer 63

endogenous morphine like substance

Question 64

what is not one of the somatosenses

Answer 64

smell

Question 65

scientists know the stress induced analgesia is mediate by endorphins because rats injected with endorphins

Answer 65

blockers and then subjected to stress

Question 66

the coding of stimulus quantity is based on

Answer 66

the rate of action potential