Suppose you burned your tongue and could not taste food for a day. Identify the sense affected.
olfaction
gustation
proprioception
kinesthesia
3.
State where perception occurs.
spinal cord
cerebral cortex
receptors
thalamus
4.
If a person’s cold receptors no longer convert cold sensory signals into electrical signals, that person has a problem with _____.
reception
the receptive field
perception
transduction
5.
What is the smallest difference in stimuli that can be detected?
receptor potential
sensory transduction
just-noticeable difference
perception
6.
In peppers, spicy heat is rated in SHUs, where 0 is the least amount of spicy heat. If the just-noticeable difference (JND) of the ability to perceive difference in heat detection for an individual is 20%, which pairs of peppers would have the same spiciness for a person?
9,500 vs 10,500 SHU
4,200 vs 5,100 SHU
18,000 vs 21,000 SHU
16,000 vs 18,500 SHU
7.
What is the role of sensory receptors in sensory perception?
detection of specific stimuli
sensation interpretation
sending electrical signals to the cortex
transmitting signals from the brain to the rest of the body
8.
Which mechanoreceptors in the skin are unencapsulated?
Merkel’s disks
Meissner’s corpuscles
Ruffini endings
Pacinian corpuscles
9.
If an individual is born without the ability to sense high-frequency vibrations, he may have been born with a mutation in a gene that codes for ______.
Merkel’s disks
Meissner’s corpuscles
Ruffini endings
Pacinian corpuscles
10.
If you were to burn your epidermis, what receptor type would most likely receive damage?
free nerve endings
Ruffini endings
Pacinian corpuscles
Krause end bulbs
11.
_____ are found only in _____ skin, and detect skin deflection.
Meissner’s corpuscles, hairy
Ruffini endings, glabrous
Pacinian corpuscles, glabrous
Hair receptors, hairy
12.
To what does nociception respond?
damaging stimuli
deep, fleeting pressure
fine touch
cold
13.
Why do peppers, which contain capsaicin, taste “hot?”
Capsaicin is corrosive and damages tissue.
Capsaicin contains large quantities of heat that are released upon ingestion.
Capsaicin and warm receptors open the same calcium channels.
Capsaicin stimulates Krause end bulbs.
14.
_____ are mechanoreceptors that facilitate proper gripping of objects.
Merkel’s disks
Meissner’s corpuscles
Ruffini endings
Pacinian corpuscles
15.
How many different taste molecules can an individual taste cell detect?
one
five
depends on the type of taste receptor
depends on the part of the tongue
16.
Describe how gustation and olfaction are similar.
Both sense different stimuli in the environment.
Both can have hundreds of millions of types of receptors.
Both obtain stimuli from within the body.
Signals from both are transmitted through the medulla.
17.
____ is the term for savoriness in food.
Gustation
Tastants
Umami
Pheromone
18.
If an individual becomes ill after eating too much spoiled food, what kind of taste receptors might they lack?
bitter
sweet
umami
sour
19.
A typical dog has approximately how many times more olfactory receptors than a typical human?
2
8
83
333
20.
(credit: modification of work by Pomerantz A, et al./Med Hypotheses)
The image shows the olfactory system for a canine.
Which is a testable hypothesis that can be written on the canine olfactory system based on this image?
Dogs breeds with larger tongues tend to have better olfactory sense.
Dog breeds whose olfactory nerves connect to the brain tend to have better olfactory sense.
Dog breeds with larger nostrils tend to have better olfactory sense.
Dogs breeds with larger snouts tend to have better olfactory sense.
21.
Which of the following has the most taste receptors?
fungiform papillae
circumvallate papillae
foliate papillae
filiform papillae
22.
In sound, pitch is measured in _____, and volume is measured in _____.
decibels (dB), hertz (Hz)
decibels (dB), nanometers (nm)
nanometers (nm), decibels (dB)
hertz (Hz), decibels (dB)
23.
Identify the animal that would be affected by a 120,000 Hz sound.
cat
bat
dolphin
dog
24.
Louder sounds have a _____ compared with softer sounds.
greater amplitude
lower amplitude
greater frequency
lower frequency
25.
Which of the following is true of frequency?
Frequency is heard as volume.
Louder sounds have a higher frequency.
Men hear higher frequencies than women.
Frequency is measured in number of sound waves per unit time.
26.
The _____ contains receptors for transduction of mechanical waves to produce electrical signals.
tympanum
cochlea
pinna
stapes
27.
The _____ contains the ____ , which produce(s) action potentials along the auditory nerve.
incus, stapes
ear canal, tympanum
tympanum, oval window
organ of Corti, stereocilia
28.
Identify the structure that is found both in the auditory system and the vestibular system.
basilar membrane
hair cells
semicircular canals
ossicles
29.
(credit: modification of work by Lindsay M. Biga, et al./Oregon State University, under CC BY-SA 4.0 license)
The top two images show the crossection of the utricle when a person is upright.
What kind of head motion would cause the utricle to have the second shape?
The person's head is tilted forward.
The person's head has rotated to the right, with no change in tilt.
The person is slowly accelerating.
The person's head has rotated to the left, with no change in tilt.
30.
Of the following, identify the waves with the highest frequency.
microwaves
ultraviolet rays
x-rays
gamma rays
31.
Of the following colors, identify the color associated with the shortest wavelength.
red
yellow
green
blue
32.
Which of the following is true of light detection?
Humans see most of the light spectrum.
Light signals can pass through a vacuum into the eye.
Decibels are used as the unit of wavelength.
Violet light has a longer wavelength than red light.
33.
The fovea is responsible for _______ because it has a high density of cones.
night vision
nearsightedness
farsightedness
acute vision
34.
(credit: modification of work "Myopia" by Encyclopedia Britannica)
The image shows a normal eye, and an eye where the image falls in front of the retina, causing a vision defect.
What is this defect called?
myopia
hyperopia
astigmatism
color blindness
35.
Where does some visual processing occur before information reaches the brain?
cornea
lens
iris
retina
36.
A person catching a ball must coordinate her head and eyes. Identify the part of the brain that is helping to do this.
