Non-Visual Sensation and Perception of the Human Body

Sound will be considered as a physical stimulus when ______.

• It travels through space.

• It resonates.

• It is produced in the vacuum.

• It must travel only in the air.

It is the outermost layer of the skin.

• Epidermis

• Mesodermis

• Dermis

• Hypodermis

He said that the sense of smell was the most dispensable sense of the human body.

• Gregor Mendel

• Charles Darwin

• Immanuel Kant

• Aristotle

The following provides pressure information from the external surroundings except.

• Meissner's corpuscles

• Merkel's disks

• Ruffini's terminals

• Pacinian corpuscles

Hair cells in the sacule are oriented _______.

• Vertically

• Diagonally

• Upright

• Horizontally

The following are the three ossicles of the ear except ____.

• Malleus

• Tensor tympani

• Stapes

• Incus

These are the bumps found in the tongue that are responsible for the taste perception.

• Papilla

• Microvilli

• Gustatory cortex

• Gustatory nucleus

These are receptors responsible for our perception of pain.

• Mechanoreceptors

• Pacinian corpuscles

• Nociceptors

• Meissner's corpuscles

Damage in the somatosensory cortex leads to which of the following syndrome?

• Creudzfelt-Jakob Syndrome

• Down's Syndrome

• Neglect Syndrome

• Korsakoff's Syndrome

A unit of measurement used in measuring and describing the intensity levels of sound.

• Hertz (Hz)

• Newton (N)

• Joules (J)

• Decibels (dB)