A&P I: Chapter 16

Front

Transduction begins with an action potential in a sensory receptor.

Back

false

Front

Sensory receptors sense only stimuli external to the body, such as light, sound waves, olfaction, and touch.

Back

false

Front

Fast pain is a localized response mediated by myelinated axons.

Back

True

Front

Olfaction results from the stimulation of chemoreceptors.

Back

true

Front

Gustatory signals travel from the tongue through the facial and glossopharyngeal nerves.

Back

true

Front

Most somatosensory senses received on the right side of the body travel to the left primary somatosensory cortex.

Back

true

Front

The vestibule contains organs of hearing and equilibrium.

Back

false

Front

The macula sacculi is nearly horizontal and the macula utriculi is nearly vertical.

Back

false

Front

Changes in cerebrospinal fluid pH are detected by...

Back

chemoreceptors

Front

Changes in blood pressure are detected by_________ in certain arteries.

Back

mechanoreceptors