Exam 2 UNL Brain & Behavior
What is mechanical sensory processing? correct answers Touch, hearing, vestibular,
joint, muscle
What is photic sensory processing? correct answers Vision
What is thermal sensory processing? correct answers Cold, warmth
What is chemical sensory processing? correct answers Smell, taste, vomeronasal
What is electrical sensory processing? correct answers Electroreception
What is magnetic sensory processing? correct answers Magnetoreception
sensory transduction correct answers the process in which a receptor cell converts the
energy in a stimulus into a change in the electrical potential across its membrane
Labeled lines correct answers each nerve input to the brain reports only a particular
type of information
free nerve endings correct answers detect pain and temperature
Merkel's discs correct answers detects light touch, edges, and points
Meissner's correct answers light touch, especially changes
hair follicle receptor correct answers touch
Pacinian (or lamellated) corpuscle correct answers vibration and pressure
Ruffini corpuscle correct answers stretch
Skin Layers: correct answers epidermis, dermis, hypodermis
Pain correct answers the discomfort normally associated with tissue damage
Nociceptors correct answers receptors on free nerve endings that respond to painful
stimuli
Analgesia correct answers Pain relief
Anesthesia correct answers Loss of sensations (can be general, regional, or local)
What is mechanical sensory processing? correct answers Touch, hearing, vestibular,
joint, muscle
What is photic sensory processing? correct answers Vision
What is thermal sensory processing? correct answers Cold, warmth
What is chemical sensory processing? correct answers Smell, taste, vomeronasal
What is electrical sensory processing? correct answers Electroreception
What is magnetic sensory processing? correct answers Magnetoreception
sensory transduction correct answers the process in which a receptor cell converts the
energy in a stimulus into a change in the electrical potential across its membrane
Labeled lines correct answers each nerve input to the brain reports only a particular
type of information
free nerve endings correct answers detect pain and temperature
Merkel's discs correct answers detects light touch, edges, and points
Meissner's correct answers light touch, especially changes
hair follicle receptor correct answers touch
Pacinian (or lamellated) corpuscle correct answers vibration and pressure
Ruffini corpuscle correct answers stretch
Skin Layers: correct answers epidermis, dermis, hypodermis
Pain correct answers the discomfort normally associated with tissue damage
Nociceptors correct answers receptors on free nerve endings that respond to painful
stimuli
Analgesia correct answers Pain relief
Anesthesia correct answers Loss of sensations (can be general, regional, or local)
