Exam 11: Sensory Systems

Which receptors are responsible for touch, pressure, hearing, and equilibrium?

Explain and describe the five primary tastes. Focus on the location of the taste buds on your tongue and the chemicals they can sense.

________ detect distortions in themselves and nearby structures.

Which of these structures forms the channel that sound travels through to reach the eardrum?

A build-up of pressure in this area causes the eye to change shape and the blood vessels supplying the rods and cones to collapse. This area where the pressure may rise is called the ________.

This type of mechanoreceptor is found in the lips, nipples, and fingertips and helps us to precisely determine contact with something else.

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

The cloudiness in the eye lens that blocks light on its way to the retina is called a(n) ________.

________ are a type of sensory receptor that consists simply of the tips of dendrites.

What factors can contribute to external ear infections and middle ear infections? Why are children more prone than adults to getting middle ear infections?

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

When you walk into your grandma's house, you follow the smell of the baking chocolate chip cookies using ________ cues, but after spending a half an hour in the kitchen, you cannot notice the strong smell anymore because of ________, meaning that your receptors adjusted.

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

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

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

Although taste cells are not neurons, they generate ________ that are then sent to sensory nerve cells.

________, one type of sensory structure, detect muscle length.

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?