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WorksheetsTaste Perception
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Sensory information from the taste receptors is transferred to:
Tasting cortex of the parietal lobe
The Gustatory cortex of the parietal lobe
The Tasting cortex of the frontal lobe
The Gustatory cortex of the Frontal lobe.
Which of the following statements is incorrect?
Taste buds are located on the tongue and in other parts of the mouth.
We have about 10 000 taste buds in our mouths.
We only taste four primary tastes.
Taste receptor cells are renewed about once every 10 days.
Which of the following statements is incorrect?
Taste is referred to as the gustatory sense.
Taste is referred to as the olfactory sense.
There are five primary tastes.
Taste buds are specialised to be more sensitive to one of the primary tastes.
Which of the following is correct?
Each taste bud responds to all five primary tastes.
There are about 10 000 taste receptor cells on each taste bud.
Taste is a sensation that we need to learn.
Newborn babies cannot distinguish different tastes.
The primary gustatory cortex is located:
in the occipital lobe
in the temporal lobe
in the frontal lobe
in the parietal lobe
The papillae are:
The bumps on the tongue that contain the taste buds.
The taste buds.
Receptors which are found in the nose.
Receptors in the back of the eye which detect light.
Taste perception processes begin when __________ energy is changed into _________ energy.
chemical; electrochemical
electromagnetic; electrochemical
electromagnetic; chemical
electrochemical; electromagnetic
Several senses are involved in our perception of
flavour; the two senses most involved are:
taste and vision
touch and taste
taste and smell
vision and smell
Which of the following can affect our perception
of flavour?
the appearance of the food
our prior experience of food
our genetic makeup
all answers are correct
Samson has found that he does not like olives because he doesn’t like the way they feel in his mouth. Samson doesn’t like the _________________ of the olive.
smell
flavour
texture
All of the above
Name the five primary tastes.
Apart from taste, name two other senses that influence perception of flavour.
The missing words with regard to vision are:
light and eye
light and retina
light and photoreceptors
rods and cones
The missing words with regard to taste are:
chemical and facial nerves
chemical and nose
chemical and tongue
chemical and papillae
The main nerves that transmit signals from the taste receptors to the thalamus and on to the primary gustatory cortex in the brain are:
taste nerves
facial nerves
salivary nerves
gustatory nerves
