Module 20 21 Reading Quiz

The spinal cord contains a neurological “gate” that blocks pain signals or allows them to pass on to the brain.

• The Somatosensory Cortex

• Gate-Control

• Placebo

• Kinesthetic sense

• Vestibular sense

Kinesthesis refers to the

• quivering eye movements that enable the retina to detect continuous stimulation.

• process by which stimulus energies are changed into neural signals.

• diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus.

• system for sensing the position and movement of individual body parts.

• process of organizing and interpreting sensory information.

Which of the following is not part of our sense of touch

• Pressure

• Ticklishness

• Cold

• Pain

• Warmth

Olfactory receptor cells are essential for our sense of

• kinesthesis.

• smell.

• touch.

• hearing.

• equilibrium.