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BIOS 252
BIOS 252 Exam 3 Questions and Answers
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for perception to happen, the sensory signal must reach the
cerebrum Ans: sensory versus perception
conscious or subconscious awareness in internal or external environment,
"raw input" Ans: sensation
conscious interpretation of sensations performed mainly by cerebral cortex,
"how our brain makes sense of input" Ans: perception
the ability to no longer perceive sensations due to prolonged exposure Ans:
adaption
categorized based on distribution, location, and type Ans: Sensory
receptors/Nerve endings
pain, temperature changes, tickle, itch Ans: Free Nerve Endings
touch, pressure, vibration Ans: Encapsulated Nerve Endings
used to create special sensory reception Ans: Special Sensory Cells
sensations from outside the body Ans: exteroceptors
sensations from inside the body Ans: interoceptors
where your body is in space and time Ans: proprioceptors
stretch including touch, pressure, vibrations, stretch, proprioception Ans:
Mechanoreceptors
exteroceptors, interoceptors, proprioceptors Ans: Receptors based on
location
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Mechanoreceptors, osmoreceptors, thermoreceptors, chemoreceptors,
photoreceptors, nociceptors Ans: Receptors based on type
osmolarity Ans: osmoreceptors
temperature Ans: thermoreceptors
chemicals Ans: chemoreceptors
light Ans: photoreceptors
pain Ans: nociciceptors
acute with sharp stabbing Ans: how is fast pain described?
chronic - dull achey Ans: how is slow pain described?
pain that is felt in a location other than where the pain originates Ans:
referred pain
combined are touch, pressure, vibration, itch, and tickle Ans: tactile
receptors
itch and tickle Ans: tactile free nerve endings feel?
temperature change and pain Ans: non-tactile free nerve endings feel?
sense movement on skin by movement of hair Ans: root hair plexuses feel?
light touch, low-frequency vibration Ans: Meissner's corpuscle feel?
pressure Ans: merkel cells feel?
merkel cells Ans: type 1 cutaneous mechanoreceptors
ruffini's corpuscle Ans: type ii cutaneous mecahnoreceptors
light and deep pressure Ans: ruffini's corpuscle feel?
baroreceptors Ans: what receptors feel deep pressure?
Pacinian corpuscle Ans: lamellated corpuscles
vibration Ans: pacinian corpuscles feel?
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Chamberlain University-Illinois
BIOS 252
BIOS 252 Exam 3 Questions and Answers
2026 Latest Update
for perception to happen, the sensory signal must reach the
cerebrum Ans: sensory versus perception
conscious or subconscious awareness in internal or external environment,
"raw input" Ans: sensation
conscious interpretation of sensations performed mainly by cerebral cortex,
"how our brain makes sense of input" Ans: perception
the ability to no longer perceive sensations due to prolonged exposure Ans:
adaption
categorized based on distribution, location, and type Ans: Sensory
receptors/Nerve endings
pain, temperature changes, tickle, itch Ans: Free Nerve Endings
touch, pressure, vibration Ans: Encapsulated Nerve Endings
used to create special sensory reception Ans: Special Sensory Cells
sensations from outside the body Ans: exteroceptors
sensations from inside the body Ans: interoceptors
where your body is in space and time Ans: proprioceptors
stretch including touch, pressure, vibrations, stretch, proprioception Ans:
Mechanoreceptors
exteroceptors, interoceptors, proprioceptors Ans: Receptors based on
location
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Mechanoreceptors, osmoreceptors, thermoreceptors, chemoreceptors,
photoreceptors, nociceptors Ans: Receptors based on type
osmolarity Ans: osmoreceptors
temperature Ans: thermoreceptors
chemicals Ans: chemoreceptors
light Ans: photoreceptors
pain Ans: nociciceptors
acute with sharp stabbing Ans: how is fast pain described?
chronic - dull achey Ans: how is slow pain described?
pain that is felt in a location other than where the pain originates Ans:
referred pain
combined are touch, pressure, vibration, itch, and tickle Ans: tactile
receptors
itch and tickle Ans: tactile free nerve endings feel?
temperature change and pain Ans: non-tactile free nerve endings feel?
sense movement on skin by movement of hair Ans: root hair plexuses feel?
light touch, low-frequency vibration Ans: Meissner's corpuscle feel?
pressure Ans: merkel cells feel?
merkel cells Ans: type 1 cutaneous mechanoreceptors
ruffini's corpuscle Ans: type ii cutaneous mecahnoreceptors
light and deep pressure Ans: ruffini's corpuscle feel?
baroreceptors Ans: what receptors feel deep pressure?
Pacinian corpuscle Ans: lamellated corpuscles
vibration Ans: pacinian corpuscles feel?
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