M25 Reading Check

When food supplies may be unsafe, which of the following would have an adaptive advantage over most other people?

I. Supertasters

II. Average Tasters

III. Nontasters

• I only

• II only

• III only

• I and III only

• I, II, III

Neural impulses go directly to the cortex without passing through the thalamus from receptors in the...

• retina.

• joints.

• cochlea.

• olfactory epithelium.

• taste buds.

Receptors for kinesthesis are located in the...

• retina.

• joints.

• semicircular canals.

• olfactory epithelium.

• taste buds.

Answer explanation

your tendons in your joints loosen or tighten to help you to move and maintain posture

The theory that best accounts for the experience of pain is...

• the opponent-process theory.

• Weber's law.

• the trichromatic theory.

• the nociceptors detection theory.

• the gate-control theory.

Which sense is least involved in enabling you to maintain your balance when you stand on one foot?

• kinesthesis

• olfaction

• vision

• vestibular sense

• somatosensation

Although sound comes from speakers on the sides of the room, viewers watching a movie perceive the sound to be coming from the screen. This phenomenon is best accounted for by...

• visual capture.

• proximity.

• closure.

• opponent-process.

• feature-detection.

When a person rubs an elbow after smacking it into a table, that person is... (choose all correct)

• creating a competition between pain and nonpain impulses.

• focusing attention toward the pain.

• decreasing nonpain impulses in the area.

• increasing pain impulses in the area.

• utilizing gate-control theory.

Describe how senses may interact to provide information about something. Be sure to utilize the term sensory interaction. You may describe a scenario with many senses, or an illusory experience between two or more senses.