Response to Stimuli

What is the role of sensory receptors in how we perceive and interact with the world?

• To store all sensory information as memories
• To respond to different types of stimuli and send signals to the brain
• To ignore all sensory information
• To control our behavior

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What is the analogy used to describe how signals travel along nerve cells?

• A slow-moving river
• A bumpy road
• A super-fast highway
• A winding path

What is the importance of sensory receptors?

• They help us perceive and interact with the world
• They help us react immediately
• They help us store information as memories
• None of the above

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What is the function of the brain in response to sensory signals?

• To send signals to the sensory receptors
• To store all the signals as memories
• To ignore the signals
• To process and understand the signals

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The brain processes and understands signals received from sensory receptors and can do two things: immediate (a)   or storage as memories.

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What happens when you smell a certain type of food?

• Your brain processes the information and makes you hungry
• Your brain stores the information as a memory
• Your brain ignores the information
• Your brain sends a signal to your muscles to eat the food

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What are the five main senses?

• Sight, hearing, taste, smell, and pressure
• Sight, hearing, taste, smell, and balance
• Sight, hearing, touch, balance, and temperature
• Sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch

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What do the signals from sensory receptors travel along?

• Our nerves
• Our bones
• Our heart
• Our muscles

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What happens when the brain stores sensory information as a memory?

• The information is used for immediate behavior
• The information is stored for later use
• The information is forgotten
• None of the above

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NGSS.MS-LS1-8

What do sensory receptors do with the clues they pick up?

• Send them to our brain as signals
• Store them in our muscles
• Store them in our bones
• Send them to our heart as signals

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