Senses

What do nocioceptors detect?

• Blood pressure

• Skin temperature

• Tension/stretch in organ walls

• Pain

Which of the following correctly lists the steps of perception?

• Interpretation, stimulation, transduction, transmission

• Stimulation, transduction, transmission, interpretation

• Interpretation, transduction, stimulation, transmission

• Transduction, interpretation, stimulation, transmission

The ear detects sound by the movement of

• the basilar membrane

• the tectorial membrane

• the Eustachian tube

• fluid in the semicircular canals

The lobe of the brain that recognizes and interprets visual information is the

• occipital lobe

• frontal lobe

• parietal lobe

• temporal lobe

All sensory receptors are able to initiate nerve impulses by opening or closing

• voltage-gated ion channels

• exteroceptors

• interoceptors

• stimulus-gated ion channels

Which of these is NOT a method by which sensory receptors receive information about the internal or external

• Changes in pressure

• Light or heat changes

• Changes in molecular concentration

• All of these are used by sensory receptors

Some birds have broader color perception than humans, who are trichromatic. How does a bird that is pentachromatic differ from a human?

• They have different photoreceptor cells

• They can see four different colors

• They have photoreceptors that detect five different wavelengths of light

• They can't see in the dark, but have the same daylight vision as humans.

If one examines the ear of a human and begins with the outer ear and continues to the inner ear, what is the order of structures encountered?

• tympanic membrane, malleus, incus, stapes, oval window, cochlea

• tympanic membrane, incus, malleus, stapes, oval window, cochlea

• tympanic membrane, stapes, malleus, incus, oval window, cochlea

• tympanic membrane, oval window, malleus, incus, stapes, cochlea

The middle ear converts

• fluid pressure waves to air pressure waves

• air pressure waves to fluid pressure waves

• air pressure waves to nerve impulses

• fluid pressure waves to nerve impulses

Hair cells in the ear that give auditory information are concentrated in the

• Oval window

• Tympanic membrane

• Organ of Corti

• Semicircular canal