Senses

Question 1

What are the general senses?

Answer 1

-touch
-pain
-pressure
-vibration
-proprioception

Question 2

What senses does touch fall under?

Answer 2

general senses

Question 3

What senses does pain fall under?

Answer 3

general senses

Question 4

What senses does pressure fall under?

Answer 4

general senses

Question 5

What senses does vibration fall under?

Answer 5

general senses

Question 6

What senses does proprioception fall under?

Answer 6

general senses

Question 7

What are the special senses?

Answer 7

-smell
-taste
-hearing
-vision
-equilibrium

Question 8

What sense does smell fall under?

Answer 8

special senses

Question 9

What sense does taste fall under?

Answer 9

special senses

Question 10

What sense does vision fall under?

Answer 10

special senses

Question 11

What sense does hearing fall under?

Answer 11

special senses

Question 12

What sense does equilibrium fall under?

Answer 12

special senses

Question 13

What involves complex and specialized receptors located in the head?

Answer 13

Special senses

Question 14

What involves simple receptors distributed throughout the body?

Answer 14

General senses

Question 15

What do sensory receptors do?

Answer 15

Initiate input to the CNS in response to changes (stimuli) in the internal or external environment.

Question 16

What is transduction?

Answer 16

The conversion of energy of stimulus to nerve impulses.

Question 17

What do receptors transport signals to the CNS by?

Answer 17

Sensory neurons

Question 18

What is a receptive field?

Answer 18

The distribution area of the endings of a sensory neuron.

Question 19

What affects the ability of the CNS to localize a stimulus?

Answer 19

The size of the receptive field.

Question 20

What is a stimulus that we become consciously aware of?

Answer 20

A sensation.

Question 21

What is a process where sensory receptors often become less sensitive to a sustained stimulus?

Answer 21

Sensory Adaptation

Question 22

Receptors that adapt slowly and continue to produce nerve impulses over the duration of stimulation; pain and proprioception?

Answer 22

Tonic receptors

Question 23

Receptors that adapt rapidly and quickly stop producing nerve impulses in response to sustained stimulation; pressure and temperature?

Answer 23

Phasic receptors

Question 24

If the general sense is somatic then it is located where and does it detect?

Answer 24

-Located in the skin or mucous membrane
-detects touch,pain,temperature, vibration,pressure,stretch,
proprioception

Question 25

If the general sense is visceral then it is located where and does it detect?

Answer 25

-Located within viscera( internal organs) -detects stretch of smooth muscle, chemical changes,temperature, and pain.

Question 26

What is complicated and specialized and associated with the head?

Answer 26

Special Senses

Question 27

What cranial nerve # and name is the special sense of smell?

Answer 27

CN I (1) , Olfactory

Question 28

What cranial nerve # and name is the special sense of taste?

Answer 28

CN IX (9) , Glossopharyngeal

Question 29

What cranial nerve # and name is the special sense of vision?

Answer 29

CN II (2) , Optic

Question 30

What cranial nerve # and name is the special sense of hearing?

Answer 30

CN VIII (8) , Vestibulocochlear

Question 31

What cranial nerve # and name is the special sense of equilibrium?

Answer 31

CN VIII (8) , Vestibulocochlear

Question 32

What detects stimuli from external sources? ex. tactile, smell, taste, vision, hearing, equilibrium

Answer 32

Exteroceptors

Question 33

What detects stimuli from internal sources? -located in viscera and vessels

Answer 33

Interoceptors

Question 34

What detects stimuli related to body position? -muscle spindles and tension organs

Answer 34

Proprioceptors

Question 35

What sensory receptor detects chemicals dissolved in solution/fluid?

Answer 35

Chemoreceptors

Question 36

What includes receptors for external environment(smell of food) and internal environment (oxygen levels in blood)?

Answer 36

Chemoreceptors

Question 37

What sensory receptor detects temperature?

Answer 37

Thermoreceptors

Question 38

What is located located in skin and hypothalamus and is involved in reflexes that regulate & maintain body temperature?

Answer 38

Thermoreceptors

Question 39

What sensory receptor detects light intensity,color, and movement?

Answer 39

Photoreceptors

Question 40

What sensory receptors are in the retina of the eye?

Answer 40

Photoreceptors

Question 41

What detects distortion of receptor cells plasma membrane?

Answer 41

Mechanoreceptors

Question 42

What sensory receptor includes baroreceptors, proprioceptors; tactile receptors, pressure receptors; cells in cochlea that detect sound waves?

Answer 42

Mechanoreceptors

Question 43

What sensory receptor include touch, pressure, vibration, and stretch receptors

Answer 43

Mechanoreceptors

Question 44

What sensory receptors stimulated by tissue damage (pain); may be somatic or visceral (vague discomfort); painful stimuli?

Answer 44

Nociceptors

Question 45

What sensory receptor detect chemical, heat or mechanical damage to the body surface or skeletal muscles?

Answer 45

Somatic Nociceptors

Question 46

What sensory receptor detects internal organ damage?

Answer 46

Visceral Nociceptors

Question 47

What are the most numerous type of receptor -Located in skin or mucous membranes -Exteroceptors and mechanoreceptors -Stimulated by touch, temperature, vibration, pressure, tissue damage -Structurally, some encapsulated by CT; others unencapsulated

Answer 47

Tactile Receptors

Question 48

What kind of Tactile receptor has: -Tactile discs associated with tactile cells (tonic) -Free nerve endings can be phasic (temp.) or tonic (pain) -Nerve endings of root hair plexuses (phasic)

Answer 48

Unencapsulated Tactile Receptors

Question 49

What kind of Tactile receptor has: Tactile Corpuscles -detect light touch and texture -phasic End Bulbs -detect light pressure & low frequency vibrations -tonic Bulbous corpuscles -detect continuous deep pressure and distortion of CT deep to skin -tonic Lamellated Corpuscles -detect continuous deep pressure & high frequency vibrations -phasic

Answer 49

Encapsulated Tactile receptors: Nerve ending enclosed within a CT capsule