Match the following

• Somatosensation

• Touch

• Olfaction

• Smell

• Gustation

• Taste

Tags

NGSS.4-LS1-2

Match the following: What do these receptors respond to?

• Changes in temperature

• Thermoreceptors

• Light stimuli

• Chemoreceptors

• Chemical substances

• Photoreceptors

• Mechanical stimuli & changes in pressure

• Pain receptors

• Punctures, cuts, burns, pressure

• Mechanoreceptors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

What is the region in space in which a given receptor can respond to a stimulus?

• Transduction

• Receptive field

• Perception

• Just-noticeable difference

Labeling touch (somatosensation)

a

b

c

f

e

d

Meissner's Corpuscle

Pacinian Corpuscle

Pain receptor

Thermoreceptor

Merkel's Disk

Ruffini ending

Which of the following types of stimuli takes place when molecules bind with receptors and cause a response from the body?

• Mechanical

• Chemical

• Temperature

• Pain

Which of the following steps of sensation is the process of converting a sensory signal to an electrical signal which can be processed by the brain?

• Reception

• Transduction

• Encoding and Transmission of Sensory Information

• Perception

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

Perception takes place within the

Which of the following scientists discovered the Just-Noticeable Difference rule?

• Ernst Heinrich Weber

• James Douglas

• Louis Pasteur

• Alexander Fleming