Exam 9: Sensory Systems

Which of these eye structures is responsible for allowing a person to see color?

Charlene loved to eat raw garlic in various dishes and couldn't understand why others didn't want to be around her because she didn't notice any strong smell.What sensory phenomenon is she demonstrating?

Sensory receptors in muscles and joints that detect ________ never adapt.

A jelly-like fluid that prevents the eye from collapsing and holds the retina against the wall of the eye is called the ________.

There is a tiny muscle attached to the malleus,but if the muscle contracts,the sound will not be efficiently passed to the next structure,which is called the ________.

The photoreceptors responsible for an individual's black and white vision are known as ________.

The ________ helps you to know the position of your head with respect to gravity when you are not moving.

Match each definition in the first column to the correct term in the second column. -Epidermal receptors that detect fluctuations in ambient temperature.

If a person had sensorineural deafness,why would a bone-vibrating hearing aid be useless?

Hearing loss results from prolonged exposure to sound over ________

Bart has just burned his tongue on that hot soup! He is afraid he won't be able to taste anything for the rest of his life.What can you tell him?

Sensory receptors respond to changes in the environment called ________.

When you look at a picture of a dog and then correctly identify it,what have you done in your conscious mind?

The photoreceptors are most tightly packed into a specific part of the retina called the ________.

Which condition involves an uninjured body part experiencing pain as the result of injury to another part of the body?

When pressure builds in this area,the blood vessels supplying the rods and cones may collapse.The area where the pressure may rise is called the ________.

Compare and contrast the different types of receptors found in the body.

Lewis had a hereditary disorder that caused his cochlear hair cells to progressively die,beginning with those nearest to the oval window and then on to the rest of the hair cells.What will be the earliest problem noticed?

________ are rare types of neurons with only a single axon and a single dendrite,which process messages from the rods and cones.

If light strikes a photopigment,the photoreceptor cell will decrease the amount of ________ it is releasing.