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Exam 2 - Module 8 - Lesson Answers

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#1
Front (Question)

name all special senses

Back (Answer)

visition, audition (hearing), equilibrim (balane), gustation (pain), olfaction (smell)

#2
Front (Question)

somatosensation (touch)

Back (Answer)

general sense does not have specific organ devoted to it

#3
Front (Question)

sensory receptor that responds to harmful stimuli that causes the sensation of pain

Back (Answer)

nociceptor

#4
Front (Question)

sensory receptor tht responds to the amount of stretch in a muscle or tendon, thus sensin body position

Back (Answer)

proprioceptor

#5
Front (Question)

type of sensory receptor that interprets chemical stimuli

Back (Answer)

chemoreceptor

#6
Front (Question)

sensory receptor sensitive to changes in body temperature

Back (Answer)

thermoreceptor

#7
Front (Question)

sensory recepor sensitive to sound and changes in body position equilibrium

Back (Answer)

mechanoreceptor

#8
Front (Question)

sensory receptor responds to solute concentrations of body fluids

Back (Answer)

osmoreceptor

#9
Front (Question)

sensory receptor responds to light stimuli

Back (Answer)

photoreceptor

#10
Front (Question)

five recognized tastes

Back (Answer)

sour, salty, sweet, bitter, and umami

#11
Front (Question)

taste associated with the amount of amino acids in meat

Back (Answer)

umami (savory taste)

#12
Front (Question)

taste associated with the pH of saliva

Back (Answer)

sour

#13
Front (Question)

taste associated with alkaloids

Back (Answer)

bitter

#14
Front (Question)

taste associated with sodium

Back (Answer)

salty

#15
Front (Question)

taste associated with glucose

Back (Answer)

sweet

#16
Front (Question)

smell

Back (Answer)

smell is the one sensory modality that does not synpase in the thalamus before connecting to the cerebral cortex of the brain

#17
Front (Question)

part of ear is incus

Back (Answer)

middle

#18
Front (Question)

part of the ear is the cochlea

Back (Answer)

inner

#19
Front (Question)

part of the ear is the auricle

Back (Answer)

external

#20
Front (Question)

ear bones (ossicles) outside to inside

Back (Answer)

malleus, incus, stapes

#21
Front (Question)

steps involved in the process of hearing

Back (Answer)

sound waes amplified by outer ear (auricle) sound waves strike tympanic membrane sound waves travel through ossicles sound waves reach oval window waves in the scala vestibuli fluid in cochlear duct displaced basilar membrane vibrates stereocilia of hairs cells bend action potential on senory neuro to CNS

#22
Front (Question)

structure of the inner ear that senses head position

Back (Answer)

vestibule (utricle and saccule)

#23
Front (Question)

structure of the inner ear that senses head movement

Back (Answer)

semicircular canals (ampulla and cupula)

#24
Front (Question)

nodding head backward and forward to nod yes

Back (Answer)

vestibule