Integ. NSC exam 1 (long) questions with answers graded A+

Integ. NSC exam 1 (long) Name the 5 qualities of information to encode - correct answer Modality Intensity Duration Location Salience What are the 5 factors that influence success or failure? - correct answer Fatigue (sensory overload --> neuron stops firing) Adaptation (expression can change) Sensitization Overlap/redundancy T/F: A beta (β) are myelinated - correct answer True In the somatosensory system, what are the first order neurons? - correct answer The first neurons that receive sensory input and carry it into the CNS. Merkel cells, Meissner cells, etc. What kind of axons do the 1st order neurons in the Somatosensory system have? - correct answer Aβ (A beta) When talking about receptive fields in relation to neurons, we consider them to be - correct answer The neurons dendritic tree