BIOS 252 Test 3-Questions with Correct Answers/ Verified/ latest update (2024/2025)
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For perception to happen, the sensory organ must reach what? - Cerebrum
the ability to no longer perceive sensations due to prolonged exposure - Adaptation
There are categorized based on distribution, location, and type - Sensory receptors /nerve
endings
Which nerve endings: pain, temperature c...
BIOS 252 Test 3-Questions with Correct Answers/ Verified/ latest
update (2024/2025)
For perception to happen, the sensory organ must reach what? - ✔✔Cerebrum
the ability to no longer perceive sensations due to prolonged exposure - ✔✔Adaptation
There are categorized based on distribution, location, and type - ✔✔Sensory receptors /nerve
endings
Which nerve endings: pain, temperature changes, tickle, itch - ✔✔Free nerve endings
Which nerve endings: touch, pressure, vibration - ✔✔Encapsulated Nerve Endings
Which nerve endings: used to create special sensory reception. - ✔✔Special Sensory Cells
sensations from outside the body - ✔✔Exteroreceptors
sensations from inside the body - ✔✔Interoreceptors
where your body is in space and time - ✔✔Proprioceptors
These 3 receptors are based on location - ✔✔Extero, intero, and proprioreceptos
pain; fast (acute - sharp stabbing) and slow (chronic - dull achy) pain receptors - ✔✔Nociceptors
Which receptors are classified by type - ✔✔Mechano
Osmo
Thermo
Chemo
Photo
Nociceptors
Which division detects stimuli of the general senses and special senses? - ✔✔Somatic Sensory
Division
You wrap your hands around a warm cup of hot chocolate. This sensation is detected by -
✔✔Thermoreceptors
What are the regions of skin supplied by a spinal nerve for somatic sensation known as? -
✔✔Dermatones
Thermoreceptors depolarize in response to hot and cold stimuli, turning a stimulus into an electrical
signal. This conversion is known as - ✔✔Sensory Transduction
Potentially damaging stimuli that result in pain are selectively detected by - ✔✔Noiciceptors
Types of Receptors
The stretch of a full urinary bladder is detected by - ✔✔Interoreceptors
a type of pain that is felt in an area of the body that is different from its actual source. - ✔✔Referred
Pain
,if you hit your elbow and you feel pain there what kind of pain is this considered - ✔✔Primary pain
If you hit your elbow and you experience discomfort elsewhere, such as in your fingers, what kind of
pain is this considered ? - ✔✔Referred Pain
Injury to the liver and gallbladder can cause which type of referred pain ? - ✔✔right upper quadrant
of the abdominal cavity, at the inferior and superior aspects of the scapula, the right shoulder, and
just along the posterior portions of the false and floating ribs.
The pain of acute appendicitis is usually expressed as a poorly defined and constant pain starting at
the periumbilical or epigastric region and referred where? - ✔✔referred to the right side of the
middle lower abdomen.
Jessica went to her doctor's office with pain in her right shoulder blade and learned she was having a
gallbladder attack. You are not surprised to hear about the unusual location of her pain, since it is
known as what? - ✔✔Referred pain
The tactile sensation is a combination of five different sensory modalities - ✔✔touch
pressure
vibration
itch
tickle
Which mechanoreceptor detects deep pressure? - ✔✔Lamellated corpuscle
Proprioceptors are located in the musculoskeletal system where they detect the
______________________________________________________ of a joint or body part. -
✔✔Movement and position
If a person feels pain in between her shoulder blades of her back, which organ is most likely hurt or
damaged? - ✔✔Heart
Sense damage to tissues and cells - ✔✔Nociceptors
, Sense chemicals and chemical concentrations - ✔✔Chemoreceptors
These are the fast-adapting type of sensory receptors. They sense a stimulus and then shut down
very quickly. - ✔✔Phasic receptors
These are the slowly-adapting receptors. - ✔✔Tonic Receptors
This is when a stimulus successfully stimulates an action potential in its specific neuron - ✔✔Sense
How your brain interprets the message is how the stimulus is called what - ✔✔Perceived
Which receptors detect itch and tickle? - ✔✔Free nerve endings
Which receptor senses very light touch and low frequencies? - ✔✔Meissner's corpuscle
sense movement on skin by movement of hair - ✔✔Root hair plexuses
- light touch, low frequency vibration - ✔✔Meissner's Corpuscle
Corpuscles for touch - ✔✔Root Hair Plexus
Type I Cutaneous Mechanoreceptors - ✔✔Merkel cells / detect pressure
Type II Cutaneous Mechanoreceptors - ✔✔Ruffins Corpuscle
light and deep pressure (baroreceptors) - ✔✔Ruffini's Corpuscle
Lamallated Corpuscle - ✔✔Pacinian Corpuscle
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