Specialized muscle fibers associated with detection of muscle length are
A. muscle spindles.
B. Pacinian corpuscles.
C. Ruffini end organs.
D. Golgi tendon organs.
E. Merkel disks.
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Question 2) When a person is exposed to temperature extremes, why is it difficult to distinguish hot from cold objects?
A. Temperature perception requires more than one type of receptor.
B. Temperatures above 37 degrees centigrade actually stimulate the cold receptors.
C. At extremes, pain receptors are stimulated by both very hot and very cold objects.
D. Most temperature receptors cannot differentiate hot from cold.
E. Pain receptors are inhibited by both very hot and very cold objects.
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Question 3) Which of these combinations of general senses depends on mechanoreceptors?
A. touch and temperature
B. pressure and temperature
C. pressure and proprioception
D. proprioception and temperature
E. taste and smell
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Question 4) Changes in the blood concentration of glucose, oxygen and hydrogen are detected by
A. baroreceptors.
B. chemoreceptors.
C. nociceptors.
D. proprioceptors.
E. thermoreceptors.
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Question 5) Vision is dependent upon
A. chemoreceptors.
B. photoreceptors.
C. thermoreceptors.
D. mechanoreceptors.
E. nociceptors.
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Question 6) A state of conscious awareness of stimuli received by sensory receptors is called
A. adaptation.
B. projection.
C. translation.
D. perception.
E. inclination.
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Question 7) Mechanoreceptors respond to
A. compression of receptors.
B. irritation of nerve endings.
C. light striking the receptors.
D. binding of molecules to membrane receptors.
E. a change in temperature.
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Question 8) The pain a person experiences with acute appendicitis results from stimulating nerve endings called
A. painreceptors.
B. internoreceptors.
C. visceroreceptors
D. proprioceptors.
E. appendoreceptors.
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Question 9) Free nerve endings respond to
A. temperature change and pain.
B. pressure and vibration.
C. light touch and two-point discrimination.
D. temperature change and pressure.
E. chemicals.
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Question 10) Which of the following is a somatic sense?
A. smell
B. taste
C. touch
D. sound
E. sight