Sensory Systems

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Quiz sobre Sensory Systems, criado por Catriona Wilds em 21-02-2019.
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Questão 1

Questão
Which of the following are NOT a component of the somatosenses?
Responda
  • Free nerve endings in the skin
  • Receptors located within limb joints
  • Hair cells within the cochlea
  • Encapsulated receptors within the skin

Questão 2

Questão
Damage to fibres containing the TRPV1 receptor would be expected to...
Responda
  • Impair touch sensation
  • Increase the emotional response to a painful stimulus
  • Alter reactivity to high-temperature stimuli
  • Alter reactivity to mechanical stimuli

Questão 3

Questão
After damage to her somatosensory association cortex, Patient E.C. experienced...
Responda
  • Visual agnosia
  • A difficulty in differentiating objects by texture cues
  • A loss of tactile sensitivity
  • Difficulty in recognizing common objects by touch

Questão 4

Questão
Our reaction to painful stimulation may be modified by...
Responda
  • Consumption of placebo pill
  • Hypnosis
  • Opiate administration
  • All of the above are correct

Questão 5

Questão
Imaging studies suggest that the unpleasant aspect of pain involves the...
Responda
  • Temporal cortex
  • Primary somatosensory cortex
  • Amygdala
  • Anterior cingulate cortex

Questão 6

Questão
The process of vaginal stimulation induces analgesia through...
Responda
  • The release of naloxone from sensory nerve endings
  • Neural inhibition of the spinal cord
  • The production of a hypnotic state
  • Endogenous opiate release

Questão 7

Questão
A person is administered a placebo "pain-relieving" skin cream just before receiving a painful electric shock. Imaging studies suggest that the placebo effect is due to...
Responda
  • Decreased activity within the prefrontal cortex an periaqueductal gray
  • Decreased activity within the somatosensory cortex
  • Increased activity within the prefrontal cortex and periaqueductal gray
  • Blockade of opiate receptors with the spinal cord

Questão 8

Questão
Cutaneous sensory information from below the head is sent to the brain via...
Responda
  • Cranial nerves
  • Spinal nerves
  • The blood stream
  • the internal organs

Questão 9

Questão
Sharp pain is conducted by ____ and dull pain is conducted by ____ axons.
Responda
  • Thinly myelinated; unmyelinated
  • Unmyelinated; thinly myelinated
  • Densely myelinated; thinly myelinated
  • Thinly myelinated; densely myelinated

Questão 10

Questão
If glutamate receptors in the spinal cord were blocked, what would happen to pain sensation?
Responda
  • Intense pain would feel mild
  • There would be no effect on the sensation of pain
  • Mild to moderate pain would be eliminated
  • Mild to moderate pain would be intensified

Questão 11

Questão
Eisenberger, Lieberman & Williams (2003) found that social rejection increased activity in the...
Responda
  • Somatosensory cortex
  • The temporal association cortex
  • Dorsal root ganglia
  • Anterior cingulate cortex

Questão 12

Questão
Opiate receptors act by blocking...
Responda
  • Glutamate release
  • Substance P release
  • Ion channels on dendrites of free nerve endings
  • The generation of a sensory neuron's action potential

Questão 13

Questão
Imagine that a person receives a cut that goes halfway through the spinal cord on the RIGHT side only. What would happen to pain sensation and touch sensation?
Responda
  • Pain sensation lost on right side; touch sensation lost on left side
  • Pain sensation lost on left side; touch sensation lost on right side
  • Pain and touch sensation lost on left side
  • Pain and touch sensation lost on right side

Questão 14

Questão
Imagine that you are suffering chronic pain from a medical condition that cannot be treated. In order to minimise the long-term emotional response to your pain, you wold choose a modification to your...
Responda
  • Parietal cortex
  • Primary somatosensory cortex
  • Dorsal lateral thalamus
  • Prefrontal cortex

Questão 15

Questão
Capsaicin is the active ingredient in which type of topical treatment?
Responda
  • Psoriasis cream
  • Deep freeze gel
  • Deep heat gel
  • Anti-ageing cream

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