ECPI : A&P: CHAPTER 12 UPDATED
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Sensation: - CORRECT ANSWER - Brain becomes aware of sensory information
Sensory Receptors: - CORRECT ANSWER - How you detect a change
How are sensations sent to the brain? - CORRECT ANSWER - Action potential
Perception: - CORRECT ANSWER - The way the brain interprets the sensory information
(the sensations received)
Projection: - CORRECT ANSWER - Ability of brain to localize where the stimulate is
happening
- Ex: someone touches your arm with your eyes closed and you can tell your arm is being
touched.
Sensory Adaptation: - CORRECT ANSWER - Brain's ability to ignore a stimulus
- Smelling/tasting very liable to sensory adaptation
- Ex: getting used to a bad smell where you don't smell it's bad anymore
Exoreceptive Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Any sensation that comes from external
environment
Ex: pain, touch, temperature
Interoceptive Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Any sensation that comes from inside the
body
- Ex: Changes in viscera (internal organs of body)
, Proprioceptive Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Pressure/position
Properties of General Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Senses with small, widespread
sensory receptors, associated with skin, muscles, joints, viscera.
Touch & Pressure Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Free nerve endings
- Meissner's Corpuscles & Merkel Receptors
- Pacinian Corpuscles
Free Nerve Endings: - CORRECT ANSWER - For pain and temperature
Meissner's Corpuscles & Merkel Receptors: - CORRECT ANSWER - Touch sensation
- Merkel is in epidermis
Pacinian Corpuscles: - CORRECT ANSWER - For pressure, vibrations
- In dermis
Muscle Spindles: - CORRECT ANSWER - Proreceptors of muscles
Gustation: - CORRECT ANSWER - Sense of taste
Properties of Special Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - - in the head
- Smell: olfactory nerves in nasal cavity
- Taste: taste buds in oral cavity
- Hearing & equilibrium: inner ears
- Sight: eyes
ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Sensation: - CORRECT ANSWER - Brain becomes aware of sensory information
Sensory Receptors: - CORRECT ANSWER - How you detect a change
How are sensations sent to the brain? - CORRECT ANSWER - Action potential
Perception: - CORRECT ANSWER - The way the brain interprets the sensory information
(the sensations received)
Projection: - CORRECT ANSWER - Ability of brain to localize where the stimulate is
happening
- Ex: someone touches your arm with your eyes closed and you can tell your arm is being
touched.
Sensory Adaptation: - CORRECT ANSWER - Brain's ability to ignore a stimulus
- Smelling/tasting very liable to sensory adaptation
- Ex: getting used to a bad smell where you don't smell it's bad anymore
Exoreceptive Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Any sensation that comes from external
environment
Ex: pain, touch, temperature
Interoceptive Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Any sensation that comes from inside the
body
- Ex: Changes in viscera (internal organs of body)
, Proprioceptive Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Pressure/position
Properties of General Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - Senses with small, widespread
sensory receptors, associated with skin, muscles, joints, viscera.
Touch & Pressure Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - - Free nerve endings
- Meissner's Corpuscles & Merkel Receptors
- Pacinian Corpuscles
Free Nerve Endings: - CORRECT ANSWER - For pain and temperature
Meissner's Corpuscles & Merkel Receptors: - CORRECT ANSWER - Touch sensation
- Merkel is in epidermis
Pacinian Corpuscles: - CORRECT ANSWER - For pressure, vibrations
- In dermis
Muscle Spindles: - CORRECT ANSWER - Proreceptors of muscles
Gustation: - CORRECT ANSWER - Sense of taste
Properties of Special Senses: - CORRECT ANSWER - - in the head
- Smell: olfactory nerves in nasal cavity
- Taste: taste buds in oral cavity
- Hearing & equilibrium: inner ears
- Sight: eyes
