Somatic Nervous System

Question 1

________ is processed through a series of neurons

Answer 1

Sensory information

Question 2

May result in conscious sensation or motor response

Answer 2

Sensory pathways

Question 3

Are carried out by a series of neurons

Answer 3

Motor response

Question 4

Transduce stimuli into an electrical charge interpreted by your brain that results in __________

Answer 4

Sensation

Question 5

Allows receptors to become less sensitive to stimuli overtime

Answer 5

Adaptation

Question 6

Can adapt quickly

Answer 6

Phasic receptors

Question 7

Adapt slowly or not at all

Answer 7

Tonic receptors

Question 8

Detects pain

Answer 8

Nociceptors

Question 9

Detects pressure

Answer 9

Baroreceptors

Question 10

Detects physical stimuli like pressure and vibration

Answer 10

Mechanoreceptors

Question 11

Detects solute concentration in bodily fluids

Answer 11

Osmoreceptors

Question 12

Stimuli from external environment

Answer 12

Exteroceptors

Question 13

Stimuli from internal organs and tissues

Answer 13

Interceptor

Question 14

Moving body parts

Answer 14

Proprio receptors

Question 15

Found all over the body

Answer 15

General sense receptors

Question 16

Found in the head

Answer 16

Special sense receptors

Question 17

Is accomplished by photoreceptors of the eye

Answer 17

Vision

Question 18

It is a chemical special sense

Answer 18

Taste gustation

Question 19

What are the recognized tastes

Answer 19

Sweet sour bitter salty umami and fat

Question 20

Where are the taste buds contained

Answer 20

Papillae

Question 21

What replaces damaged taste receptors

Answer 21

Basal epithelial cells

Question 22

What desolves molecules so that chemicals reach taste receptor cells

Answer 22

Saliva

Question 23

It is detected when Na ions reach taste cell receptors

Answer 23

Salty

Question 24

It is detected when H ions reach taste cell receptors

Answer 24

Sour

Question 25

It is detected when glucose reach taste cell receptors

Answer 25

Sweet

Question 26

Is detected by 23 different taste receptors but varies between individuals

Answer 26

Bitter

Question 27

It is detected when L glutamate activates taste cell receptors

Answer 27

Umami

Question 28

Detects deep pressure

Answer 28

Lamellated corpuscle

Question 29

Detects light pressure

Answer 29

Tactile corpuscle

Question 30

Detects stretching of skin

Answer 30

Bulbous corpuscle

Question 31

These types of pain can share the same pathway

Answer 31

Somatic pain and visceral pain

Question 32

Prevents further damage to tissues and cells of the body

Answer 32

Pain

Question 33

Pain that originates inside blood vessels and internal organs

Answer 33

Visceral pain

Question 34

Pain that covers other bodily tissues loke skin muscle and bone

Answer 34

Somatic pain

Question 35

When the brain becomes confused on where the origin of the pain is unclear

Answer 35

Referred pain