Identify all of the examples of primary receptors. (Check all that apply.)
Select one or more:
a. Hair cells in the ear
b. Taste cell
c. Meissner
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d. Free nerve endings
e. Pacinian corpuscle
Which of the cortical areas listed below is most likely to be stimulated first when
repeating a word you just heard spoken?
Select one:
a. Auditory association area
b. Primary auditory cortex
c. Broca area
d. Wernicke area
e. Primary motor area
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Receptors that detect stretch of a tendon and are important for control of muscle
contraction are_________.
Select one:
a. Ruffini end organs
b. Golgi tendon organs
c. muscle spindles
d. Meissner corpuscles
e. Pacinian corpuscles
A decreased sensitivity to a continued stimulus defines the term_________.
Select one:
a. sensation
b. conditioning
c. perception
d. adaptation
Terrance is told by his physician that he has lesions on one side of his spinal cord, which
cut the lateral spinothalamic tract. Therefore, Terrance will have an inability to perceive
Select one:
a. sensations of tickle on the same side of his body below the level of injury.
b. sensations of touch from both sides of his body below the level of injury.
c. cutaneous sensations on the opposite side of his body below the level of injury.
d. sensations of vibration on the opposite side of his body at the level of the injury.
e. his sense of proprioception on the same side of his body below the level of the
injury.
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Which of the following are associated with the retina?
Select one:
a. Suspensory ligaments
b. Pupil and cornea
c. Lens and cones
d. Rods and cones
e. Ciliary muscles and iris
When you try to focus on the tip of your nose,
Select one:
a. the ciliary muscles relax.
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