Sensation Quiz

Vibration is crucial to which sense?

• hearing

• sight

• smell

• taste

If we did not have cones in our eyes, we would not see

• colors

• shapes

• sizes

• distant objects

Receptors that are responsible for transferring light into neural impulses.  

• Rods & Cones of Retina
• Optic Stem
• Cornea
• Iris

What is the first part of the eye that light hits?

• lens

• cornea

• pupil

• retina

• iris

The process by which your ears convert sound waves to neural impulses is called...

• sensory adaptation

• accommodation

• parallel processing

• sensory introduction

• Transduction

Which of the following are chemical senses?

• touch

• smell

• taste

• vision

• hearing

Visual stimuli collected by the rods and cones in our retina are largely interpreted by the visual cortex in our brain. Where is the visual cortex located?

• Temporal Lobe

• Somatosensory Cortex

• Olfactory Bulb

• Occipital Lobe

The coiled, fluid filled tube in which sound waves trigger nerve impulses is called...

• eustachian tube

• auditory canal

• semicircular canal

• cochlea

• vestibular aparatus

Outer part of ear that gathers soundwaves to send down the auditory canal

• pinna
• fovea
• eardrum/tympanic membrane

• auditory nerve

On the diagram supplied here, the numbers 13, 12, and 11 refer to a group of three tiny bones in the inner ear called the:

• basilar membrane
• ossicle bones

• ear drum

• cochlea