Chapter 10 Senses Questions with complete solution 2025/2026

Chapter 10 Senses Questions with complete solution 2025/2026


1.General senses are responsible for? pain, temperature, touch, pressure
and body posi- tion

2 What are special senses responsible for? smell, taste, vision, hearing and
. equilibrium

3. Define photoreceptor sensitive to change in light

4. deffine chemoreceptors sensitive to presence of certain chemicals, as
in
taste or smell

5. define pain receptors sensitive to physical injury

6. Define thermoreceptors sensitive to changes in temperature

7. define mechanoreceptors sensitive to mechanical stimuli that change
their
position or shape

8. What are the common functional char- 1. able to detect a particular
stimulus
acteristics of sensory pathways 2. a stimulus results in generation of
a nerve im- pulse
3. a nerve impulse is processed an
perceived as a sensation in the central
nervous system

9. define 2 point discrimination involves simultaneously touching 2 points on
the
skin over one area of the body to determine
whether the ability to feel the two separate
stimuli present

10. define mode the kind of stimulus or change a receptor os
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, sense is able to detect

11. free neuron ending mode pain, discriminative touch, tickle and
temperature




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