Sensory System

Which of the following receptor types is incorrectly matched with the item it detects?

• Mechanoreceptors; pain

• Thermoreceptors; temperature

• Photoreceptors; light

• Chemoreceptors; chemicals

Which of the following touch receptors would detect deep pressure against the skin?

• Merkel's disks

• Meissner's corpuscles

• Hair follicle receptors

• Pacinian corpuscles

Balance is an additional special sense that has receptors housed in the ear.

• True

• False

Which of these parts of the eye does not have the job of regulating or focusing light as it comes into the eye?

• Iris

• Pupil

• Sclera

• Lens

What is the point on the retina where the sharpest image can be detected?

• Optic nerve

• sclera

• Choroid

• Fovea Centralis

Which of the following helps you see in low light?

• Cones, pupil wide open

• Cones, pupil nearly closed

• Rodas, pupil nearly closed

• Rods, pupil wide open

If you were looking at an eyeball during a dissection and it was flat, what likely happened?

• the aqueous humour was extracted

• the suspensoty ligaments were damaged

• the cornea was removed

• the vitreous humour flowed out

Which of the following is not true of tast buds?

• taste buds and papillae are the same thing

• there are different types of taste buds

• Children have more taste buds than adults

• taste buds contain chemoreceptors

Your ear is dividsed into three major areas

• outer, medial, and inner

• external, middle, and inner

• lateral, medial, and innermost

• none of these

The pinna or auricles main function is to catch sound waves and pass them deeper into the ear.

• True

• False