BIO 141 EXAM 5 QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS
Receptors for the general senses are found - Correct Answers -widely distributed
throughout the body
The brain interprets input from sensory receptors as - Correct Answers -perception
The ability to ignore your socks around your ankles demonstrates - Correct Answers -
sensory adaptation
The sequence of information flow in response to biting into a slice of pizza is - Correct
Answers -sensory receptors, activated, impulse sent to CNS, sensation, perception
Max returns to his late at night to find his roommate throwing up. The smell is at first so
bad that Max wants to vomit too, but after helping his roommate clean up, the odor
seems to fade, Max has experienced - Correct Answers -sensory adaptation
Sensory impulses are stimulated at receptors by - Correct Answers -Change in action
potentials
Sensation is - Correct Answers -a feeling that results from sensory stimulation
Projection of a sensation is the - Correct Answers -brain causing it to seem to come
from the receptors being stimulated
Henry has a hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy, which means that he
cannot fell pain. he lacks - Correct Answers -nociceptors
Another name for pain receptors is - Correct Answers -nociceptors
Fibers of the spinothalamic tract transmit information to the - Correct Answers -
Thalamus
A pole vaulter keeps track f his position in mid ar through - Correct Answers -
Proprioceptors
Pain receptors differ from other somatic receptors by - Correct Answers -adapting very
little, if at all
, temperature senses use two types of - Correct Answers -free nerve endings
pain receptors - Correct Answers -respond to factors that can damage tissue
As a result of the tympanic reflex involving the Stapedius and tensor tympani muscles in
the middle ear - Correct Answers -vibrations are transmitted less effectively to the inner
ear
Movement of hair cells in the semicircular canals signals - Correct Answers -the
direction of motion
farsightedness after a age of 45 is most likely caused by - Correct Answers -loss of lens
capsule elasticity
__________ corpuscles are abundant in the skin of the palms and soles - Correct
Answers -Tactile
the ____ ____ connects the middle ear and the pharynx - Correct Answers -auditory
tube
the transparent, anterior portion of the eyes outer tunic is called the ________ - Correct
Answers -cornea
the adjustment of the thickness of the lens to make close vision possible is called
the_________ - Correct Answers -accommodation
the _______ _______ is the region of sharpest vision in the retina - Correct Answers -
fovea centralis
a device that can restore some hearing is a ______ implant - Correct Answers -cochlear
temperature senses use two types of - Correct Answers -free nerve endings
The brain and spinal cord comprise the ________ nervous system - Correct Answers -
Central
The axon is connected to the cell body by the - Correct Answers -synaptic knobs
Neurotransmitters are released from the - Correct Answers -axon terminals
The site of intercellular communication between neurons is the - Correct Answers -
synapse
neurons in which dendritic and axonal processes are continuous and the soma lies off
to one side are called - Correct Answers -unipolar
CORRECT ANSWERS
Receptors for the general senses are found - Correct Answers -widely distributed
throughout the body
The brain interprets input from sensory receptors as - Correct Answers -perception
The ability to ignore your socks around your ankles demonstrates - Correct Answers -
sensory adaptation
The sequence of information flow in response to biting into a slice of pizza is - Correct
Answers -sensory receptors, activated, impulse sent to CNS, sensation, perception
Max returns to his late at night to find his roommate throwing up. The smell is at first so
bad that Max wants to vomit too, but after helping his roommate clean up, the odor
seems to fade, Max has experienced - Correct Answers -sensory adaptation
Sensory impulses are stimulated at receptors by - Correct Answers -Change in action
potentials
Sensation is - Correct Answers -a feeling that results from sensory stimulation
Projection of a sensation is the - Correct Answers -brain causing it to seem to come
from the receptors being stimulated
Henry has a hereditary sensory and autonomic neuropathy, which means that he
cannot fell pain. he lacks - Correct Answers -nociceptors
Another name for pain receptors is - Correct Answers -nociceptors
Fibers of the spinothalamic tract transmit information to the - Correct Answers -
Thalamus
A pole vaulter keeps track f his position in mid ar through - Correct Answers -
Proprioceptors
Pain receptors differ from other somatic receptors by - Correct Answers -adapting very
little, if at all
, temperature senses use two types of - Correct Answers -free nerve endings
pain receptors - Correct Answers -respond to factors that can damage tissue
As a result of the tympanic reflex involving the Stapedius and tensor tympani muscles in
the middle ear - Correct Answers -vibrations are transmitted less effectively to the inner
ear
Movement of hair cells in the semicircular canals signals - Correct Answers -the
direction of motion
farsightedness after a age of 45 is most likely caused by - Correct Answers -loss of lens
capsule elasticity
__________ corpuscles are abundant in the skin of the palms and soles - Correct
Answers -Tactile
the ____ ____ connects the middle ear and the pharynx - Correct Answers -auditory
tube
the transparent, anterior portion of the eyes outer tunic is called the ________ - Correct
Answers -cornea
the adjustment of the thickness of the lens to make close vision possible is called
the_________ - Correct Answers -accommodation
the _______ _______ is the region of sharpest vision in the retina - Correct Answers -
fovea centralis
a device that can restore some hearing is a ______ implant - Correct Answers -cochlear
temperature senses use two types of - Correct Answers -free nerve endings
The brain and spinal cord comprise the ________ nervous system - Correct Answers -
Central
The axon is connected to the cell body by the - Correct Answers -synaptic knobs
Neurotransmitters are released from the - Correct Answers -axon terminals
The site of intercellular communication between neurons is the - Correct Answers -
synapse
neurons in which dendritic and axonal processes are continuous and the soma lies off
to one side are called - Correct Answers -unipolar
