Exam 23: General Senses

Which of the following is not true of a receptor potential?

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

Which of the following defines or explains adaptation?

The two general classes of sense organs are:

Match each receptor type with its corresponding description. -Activated by heat or cold

Free nerve endings respond to all of the following stimuli except:

Referred pain may be caused by deep organ receptors and skin area receptors entering the same segment of the spinal cord.

The somatic senses enable us to detect sensations, including:

Taste buds are both exteroceptors and chemoreceptors.

Referred pain is psychosomatic pain brought on by intense stress.

A graded response is a response graded to the strength of a stimulus.

Walking would stimulate tonic proprioceptors.

Merkel disks and muscle spindles provide the body with information about muscle and the strength of muscle contraction.

The two general classes of sense organs are:

The Ruffini corpuscle is an example of a bulboid corpuscle.

Photoreceptors are found only in the eye.

Muscle spindles are stimulated by excessive muscle contraction.

Which of the following is considered a somatic sense?

The ability to sense the presence of your books when you have been holding them for a long time depends on the functioning of the Krause end bulbs.

Osmoreceptors monitor the concentration of glucose in the blood.