Sensation and Perception

The basilar membrane is lined with:

• hues

• olfactory receptors

• bipolar cells

• hair cells

Vibration is crucial to which sense?

• sight

• hearing

• smell

• taste

If an elderly person thinks that food does not taste as good as it used to, what is the likely reason?

• decline in his or her kinesthetic senses

• decline in his or her cochlea

• decline in his or her vestibular system

• decline in her or his olfaction

Damage to the olfactory nerve might prevent a person from

• seeing a traffic light change.

• hearing birds chirp.

• smelling freshly baked bread.

• feeling the texture of

  a curtain.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The coiled, fluid filled tube in which sound waves trigger nerve impulses is called...

• eustachian tube

• auditory canal

• semicircular canal

• cochlea

• vestibular aparatus

The classic gate-control theory suggests that pain is experienced when small nerve fibers activate and open a neural gate in the...

• basilar membrane

• spinal cord

• semicircular canal

• olfactory bulbs

• fovea

Which brain component routes all sensory information, except olfaction, to its appropriate brain region for processing?

• Somatosensory Cortex

• Frontal Lobe

• Thalamus

• Medulla

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

The process by which your ears convert sound waves to neural impulses is called...

• sensory adaptation

• accommodation

• parallel processing

• sensory introduction

• Transduction

What is this?

• Pinna

• Hearing Nerve

• Cochlea

• Ear Drum

• Anvil

What is the process by which our sensory receptors and nervous system receive and represent stimulus energies from our environment?

• Sensation

• Perception

• Selective Attention

• Transduction