Question 1

Gary has conductive deafness as a result of ____ damage.

Accepted Answer

A)   middle ear
B)   cochlear
C)   hair cell
D)   nerve

Question 2

Since taste receptors are modified _____, they are replaced approximately every _____.

Accepted Answer

A)   skin cells; two weeks
B)   skin-cells two months
C)   olfactory receptors; three weeks
D)   somatosensory neurons; two weeks

Question 3

Professor Gramling is giving a lecture about the auditory system. He tells the class that the basilar membrane is part of the _____ in the _____.

Accepted Answer

A)   cochlea; middle ear
B)   cochlea; inner ear
C)   tympanic membrane; outer ear
D)   malleus; middle ear

Question 4

In the auditory system, hair cells are specialized receptors that respond to ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   mechanical displacement
B)   electromagnetic energy
C)   chemicals
D)   vestibular input

Question 5

How do hurt feelings resemble physical pain?

Accepted Answer

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Question 6

Damage to V1 produces ____ and damage to A1 produces ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   blindness; complete deafness
B)   complete deafness; blindness
C)   blindness; deafness to complex sounds
D)   blindness; ringing in the ears

Question 7

Meissner's corpuscles are ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   elaborate neuron endings for touch
B)   simple, bare neuron endings
C)   bare endings surrounded by non-neural cells
D)   important components of the blood

Question 8

Which ability would be most impaired with damage to the vestibular senses?

Accepted Answer

A)   Writing
B)   Hearing
C)   Visually tracking an object while dancing
D)   Discriminating salt from sugar

Question 9

Elfreda burned her tongue and lost some of her taste receptors. She will now have permanent taste problems.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The eardrum vibrates at ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   a much higher frequency than the sound waves that hit it
B)   half the frequency of the sound waves that hit it
C)   the same frequency as the sound waves that hit it
D)   a constant frequency regardless of the frequency of the sound

Question 11

Professor Schimke is giving a lecture on the somatosensory system. He tells the class that sensory information travels from the thalamus to the _____.

Accepted Answer

A)   prefrontal lobe
B)   amygdala
C)   hypothalamus
D)   parietal lobe

Question 12

Studies with placebos and studies using hypnotism suggest that much of the reduction in pain is the result of decreased activation in the ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   emotion areas of the brain
B)   hypothalamus
C)   spinal cord
D)   somatosensory areas of the cortex

Question 13

How do sound waves ultimately result in the production of receptor potentials?

Accepted Answer

A)   The tectorial membrane squeezes the auditory nerve.
B)   The basilar membrane releases neurotransmitters.
C)   Hair cells in the cochlea vibrate, causing ion channels to open in their membrane.
D)   The scala vestibuli has receptors that create action potentials.

Question 14

Humans have a sense of taste so that ______.

Accepted Answer

A)   we are encouraged to eat sweet foods with lots of calories
B)   we know what to eat and what to spit out
C)   we are encouraged to eat fatty foods for the calorie intake
D)   we can determine if a food is a vegetable, fruit, or protein

Question 15

The ____ of a sound is the number of compressions per second.

Accepted Answer

A)   pitch
B)   frequency
C)   amplitude
D)   loudness

Question 16

Olfactory receptors carry their message to the ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   cochlea
B)   NTS
C)   insular cortex
D)   olfactory bulb

Question 17

Taste and smell axons converge onto many of the same cells in an area called the ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   frontal cortex
B)   striate cortex
C)   insular cortex
D)   endopiriform cortex

Question 18

What is the intensity of a sound wave called?

Accepted Answer

A)   Frequency
B)   Loudness
C)   Amplitude
D)   Tone

Question 19

How many kinds of olfactory receptors do we have?

Accepted Answer

A)   Two or three
B)   Seven
C)   Twenty
D)   Hundreds

Question 20

Pacinian corpuscles respond best to ____.

Accepted Answer

A)   rapid mechanical pressure
B)   low frequency sounds
C)   horizontal head movements
D)   slow mechanical movements

Exam 6: Other Sensory Systems

How many kinds of olfactory receptors do we have?

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Meissner's corpuscles are ____.

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Since taste receptors are modified _____, they are replaced approximately every _____.

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Pacinian corpuscles respond best to ____.

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The eardrum vibrates at ____.

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The ____ of a sound is the number of compressions per second.

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Studies with placebos and studies using hypnotism suggest that much of the reduction in pain is the result of decreased activation in the ____.

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How do sound waves ultimately result in the production of receptor potentials?

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Which ability would be most impaired with damage to the vestibular senses?

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In the auditory system, hair cells are specialized receptors that respond to ____.

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Damage to V1 produces ____ and damage to A1 produces ____.

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Professor Gramling is giving a lecture about the auditory system. He tells the class that the basilar membrane is part of the _____ in the _____.

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Elfreda burned her tongue and lost some of her taste receptors. She will now have permanent taste problems.

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What is the intensity of a sound wave called?

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Taste and smell axons converge onto many of the same cells in an area called the ____.

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Professor Schimke is giving a lecture on the somatosensory system. He tells the class that sensory information travels from the thalamus to the _____.

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Olfactory receptors carry their message to the ____.

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Humans have a sense of taste so that ______.

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