Special Senses Quiz #1: Sense of Touch

The skin senses for which of the following?

• Temperature

• Pressure

• Pain

• Touch

• The skin can sense all of these

Which of the following are rapidly adapting nerve endings providing information on light touch?

• Meissner's

• Pacinian

• Alzheimers'

• None of these

In skin senses, the separation distance is called

• one point threshold

• two point threshold

• three point threshold

• It can be any one of these

Tactile and pressure receptors are known as

• mechanoreceptors

• chemoreceptors

• photoreceptors

• thermoreceptors

Pressure receptors in deep subcutaneous tissues of the body are known as

• Pacinian corpuscles

• Meissner's corpuscles

• Pacman corpuscles

• none of these

The way that receptors inform the brain about stimulus strength is called

• frequency modulation

• action potential

• receptor potentials

• signal transduction