CH 11 A&P Quiz

What allows the human body to respond to stimuli such as touch, pressure, temperature, and pain?

• General or Special Senses

• Vision

• Proprioceptors

• Retina

What is the difference between general senses and special senses?

• General is detected by microscopic receptors by the body in skin, muscles and tendons.

  Special Senses are those detected by receptors that are grouped in specific areas

• Special Senses is detected by microscopic receptors by the body in skin, muscles and tendons.

  General Senses are those detected by receptors that are grouped in specific areas

What are the five sensory receptor types and what are they sensitive to?

• Photoreceptors

• Proprioceptors

• Chemoreceptors

  &

  Mechanoreceptors

• Pain Receptors

• Thermoreceptors

Which general sense organ is unencapsulated?

• Prioprioceptors

• Photoreceptos

• Chemoreceptors

• Pain receptors

What are the 4 different sense organs?

• Eye

• Ear

• Nose

• Hand

• Taste buds

What type of specific receptor is in the taste bud sense organ that is a chemoreceptor that has a sense of taste?

What is two-point discrimination?

• The ability to distinguish one touch of stimulus into two

• The ability to have 2 stimulus into one

General senses are detected by microscopic receptors that are widely distributed throughout the body located where?

• Tendons

• Limbs

• Muscles

• Bones

The eyeball is a fluid filled sphere made up of what three layers?

• Fibrous

• Retina

• Vascular

• Inner Layer

What does the fibrous contain?

• Sclera

• Lens

• Cornea

• Iris