Anatomy and Physiology Senses Test questions with verified || || || || || || || ||
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special senses - ✔✔- taste/gustation
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- vision
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- hearing/audition
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- smell/olfaction
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- balance and equilibrium
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general senses - ✔✔- thermoreceeption (hot/cold)
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- nociception (pain)
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- mechanoreception (physical pressure)
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- somatosensation (detect texture/movement on skin)
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- proprioception (body location in space)
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general senses info - ✔✔generalized all over the body; receptors are neurons with dendrites
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in skin or muscle
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special senses info - ✔✔location on the head; have special organs in special location with
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specialized receptors ||
vision - ✔✔- dominant sense for humans
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- anatomically, the only sense with its own lobe in the brain
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- functionally, if there are conflicts between vision and other senses, the brain will believe
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your eyes ||
- only sense that requires learning (need to see by age 3 or functionally blind)
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, vision includes - ✔✔light versus dark, color, edges, depth, and movement
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eyelids - ✔✔protection; moisture via mucus
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conjunctva - ✔✔mucus memberane || || ||
sclera - ✔✔white of the eye; thick layer contains blood and nerves
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cornea - ✔✔clear section of sclera; lacks blood vessels
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pupil - ✔✔regulates the amount of light that enters the eye
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iris - ✔✔muscle regulates the light entering the eye; melanin pigment blocks light
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tears - ✔✔saltwater and enzymes
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rods - ✔✔- action potentials are suppressed by light
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- peripheral vision
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- light/dark; edges/shapes
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night-blindness - ✔✔vitamin A deficiency causes visual impairment at night; cured by || || || || || || || || || || || ||
carrots
cones - ✔✔- action potentials are caused by specific wavelengths of light
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- color in the middle of the visual field
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detailed answers ||
special senses - ✔✔- taste/gustation
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- vision
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- hearing/audition
||
- smell/olfaction
||
- balance and equilibrium
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general senses - ✔✔- thermoreceeption (hot/cold)
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- nociception (pain)
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- mechanoreception (physical pressure)
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- somatosensation (detect texture/movement on skin)
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- proprioception (body location in space)
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general senses info - ✔✔generalized all over the body; receptors are neurons with dendrites
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in skin or muscle
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special senses info - ✔✔location on the head; have special organs in special location with
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specialized receptors ||
vision - ✔✔- dominant sense for humans
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- anatomically, the only sense with its own lobe in the brain
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- functionally, if there are conflicts between vision and other senses, the brain will believe
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your eyes ||
- only sense that requires learning (need to see by age 3 or functionally blind)
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, vision includes - ✔✔light versus dark, color, edges, depth, and movement
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eyelids - ✔✔protection; moisture via mucus
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conjunctva - ✔✔mucus memberane || || ||
sclera - ✔✔white of the eye; thick layer contains blood and nerves
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cornea - ✔✔clear section of sclera; lacks blood vessels
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pupil - ✔✔regulates the amount of light that enters the eye
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iris - ✔✔muscle regulates the light entering the eye; melanin pigment blocks light
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tears - ✔✔saltwater and enzymes
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rods - ✔✔- action potentials are suppressed by light
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- peripheral vision
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- light/dark; edges/shapes
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night-blindness - ✔✔vitamin A deficiency causes visual impairment at night; cured by || || || || || || || || || || || ||
carrots
cones - ✔✔- action potentials are caused by specific wavelengths of light
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- color in the middle of the visual field
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