Sensory System

Sensory receptors in the skin include

• Free nerve endings

• Merkels discs

• Pacinian corpuscles

• All of the above

Modulation is “the ability to self-organize and regulate reactions to sensory inputs in a graded and adaptive manner.

• False

• True

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Which of the following systems contribute to balance

• Visual

• Vestibular

• Proprioception

• All of the above

Visual information is primarily processed in the following lobe

• Frontal

• Parietal

• Occipital

• Temporal

Where is the center for processing interoception

• Cerebellum

• Insula

• Vestibular Nuclei

• Hippocampus

instrument to examine the ear

• otopyorrhea

• audiometer

• otoscope

• stapedectomy

instrument to measure hearing

• otoscope

• audiometer

• myringotomy

• tympanoplasty

An example of a chemoreceptor is

• hair cells

• rods and cones

• taste buds

• Pacinian corpuscles

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

What sensory receptor is used for taste and smell?

• Chemoreceptor

• Photoreceptor

• Thermoreceptor

• Mechanoreceptor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Within the inner ear what is the name of the coiled shell that contains receptors for hearing?

• Cochlea

• Semicircular canals

• Vestibule

• Labyrinth