Quiz on Senses

What is the main function of senses?

• To provide energy

• To maintain homeostasis by providing information about the outside world and the internal environment

• To create movement

• To produce hormones

What are the two types of senses?

• General senses and special senses

• Internal senses and external senses

• Active senses and passive senses

• Primary senses and secondary senses

Where are general sense receptors located?

• Only in the head

• Widely distributed throughout the body

• Only in the hands

• Only in the feet

What do sensory receptors do?

• Produce energy

• Collect information from the environment and relay it to the CNS

• Create movement

• Produce hormones

What is the first step in the pathway of sensory information to the CNS?

• Interpretation

• Transmission

• Stimulation of sensory receptors

• Transduction

What is the process called when a stimulus is converted into graded receptor potentials?

• Transmission

• Interpretation

• Stimulation

• Transduction

What occurs when receptor potentials trigger action potentials conducted to the CNS?

• Transduction

• Transmission

• Interpretation

• Stimulation

Where does interpretation of sensory information occur?

• Sensory receptors

• Graded potentials

• Brain or spinal cord of the CNS

• Action potentials

What do sensory receptors respond to?

• Random noises

• Specific stimuli

• Bright colors

• Fast movements

What do sensory receptors allow the body to do?

• Jump higher

• Interpret sensory events

• Run faster

• Sleep better