touch quiz

The largest organ in our body is the

• skin

• lungs

• arteries

• brain

Your sense of touch can warn you of danger

• True

• False

Three basic touch sensations?

• Pressure, Temperature, Pain

• Pain, Arousal, Gestation

• Pressure, Stress, Anxiety

• Tympanic, Bombastic, Histrionic

How does the brain naturally respond to the feeling of pain?

• release of endorphins, natural hormonal pain killers

• releasing neurons that spread the localized pain across the body

• releasing pheromones that take our mind off the pain

• tensing up the body so that it can easily absorb the pain

Tactile and pressure receptors are known as

• mechanoreceptors

• chemoreceptors

• photoreceptors

• thermoreceptors

Our sense organs such as our nose, eyes, and mouth, ______________ information from our surroundings

• receive

• interprets

The sense of ___________ is possible due to sensory receptors in our skin.

• sight

• smell

• touch

• hearing

• taste

All parts of the sensory system use ________ to receive information about the world around us.

• cone cells

• receptors

• hair

• chemoreceptors

Which part of the body is the "control center" that receives information from the sensory receptors?

• brain

• spinal cord

• nerve endings

• vertebrae

What is the stimulus in this situation? "Birds flock to shelter when it starts to hail outside"

• Birds flock to shelter

• It starts to hail outside