Sensory receptors

Question 1

Each type of receptors is highly sensitive to one type of stimulus for which it is designed and yet is almost nonresponsive to other types of sensory stimuli

Answer 1

Differential sensitivity

Question 2

Change in the membrane electrical potential of a receptor caused by a stimulus

Answer 2

Receptor potential

Question 3

Impulse distorts the viscoelastic structure of the Pacinian corpuscle and this is transmitted to the same side of the central nerve fiber

Answer 3

Readjustment in structure

Question 4

Specificity of nerve fibers for transmitting only one modality of sensation

Answer 4

Labeled line principle

Question 5

Progressive “inactivation” of the sodium channels in the nerve fibers membrane

Answer 5

Electrical accomodation

Question 6

Continuous stimulus strength and is slow adapting receptor

Answer 6

Tonic receptors

Question 7

Change in stimulus strength (predictive function). Rapid adapting receptor

Answer 7

Rate receptors/ movement receptor/ phasic receptors

Question 8

Increasing signal strength is transmitted by using progressively greater numbers of fibers

Answer 8

Spatial summation

Question 9

Increasing the frequency of nerve impulses in each fiber

Answer 9

Temporal summation

Question 10

It has its own special organization that causes it to process signals in its own unique wat

Answer 10

Neuronal pools