Exam 23: General Senses

Somatic sense receptors located in muscles and joints are called visceroceptors.

Proprioceptors are specialized types of visceroceptors.

Pain that develops quickly and can be localized easily is called visceral pain.

Which of the following statements is not true of exteroceptors?

Which of the following is true of proprioceptors?

Olfactory receptors and taste buds are chemoreceptors.

Osmoreceptors measure the type of chemicals in the blood and stimulate the hypothalamus.

If you slammed your finger in a car door, it would stimulate _____ pain fibers.

Differentiate between the pain receptors in the body-both fast and slow fibers and visceral and somatic pain.

Touch and pressure are examples of stimuli that activate mechanoreceptors.

Photoreceptors are found only in the eye.

Which large mechanoreceptor, when sectioned, shows thick laminated connective tissue capsules?

Somatic sense receptors are distributed evenly throughout the body.

Match each receptor type with its corresponding description. -Activated by stretch or pressure in muscle tissue

As we wear our sneakers, we lose the constant feeling of their presence; this is called adaptation.

Golgi tendon receptors are stimulated by touch.

Describe each of the receptor categories, based on the types of stimuli that activate them.

Taste buds are both exteroceptors and chemoreceptors.

Proprioceptors in muscles and joints tend to adapt faster than other types of receptors.

Mechanoreceptors are the simplest, most common, and most widely distributed sensory receptors.