Exam 27: The Senses

When you hear the waves,which of the following is being activated?

You are swimming in a pool and feel the waves of pressure as water moves against your body.You are making use of what to detect this?

A subject in a physiological experiment who has been listening to loud noise for 5 minutes reports noticing the noise less over time.The nerve most obviously involved in this sensory adaptation is the

What sense is not one of the special senses?

During surgery on the head,a surgeon accidentally cuts a nerve,and the patient loses hearing.The nerve which was cut was the

The point where the optic nerve exits the retina is called the

To design an experimental protocol to study the light-sensitive pigment in a bird's retina,you would be trying to extract the chemical called

If you wanted to design a drug to stop the sense of smell,what kind of receptor would you target?

You are told that a newborn has a developmental defect in the eye which prevents light from entering the eye,and that this defect does not involve the lens itself.Your first guess as to what is defective would be the

Insects have compound eyes.

What is the stress faced by naked mole rats in their crowded burrows?

Naked mole rats face high levels of carbon dioxide leading to normally painful levels of tissue acidity due to the _______ of their burrows.

If you wanted to design a drug which could be used in experiments to disorient subjects in terms of their posture,you would target what kind of structure?

The senses of equilibrium and balance derive from the

If a person has been prescribed eyeglasses with lenses that shorten the path of light,it is most likely to correct for that person

Receptors for the general senses are

The rods and cones in the retina transduce light energy into action potentials,which can then travel to the brain for processing.

Naked mole rats can tolerate higher CO₂ levels than can mice due to the inhibition of their homeostatic pain receptors by the acid.

In humans,which of the following is used to primarily detect heat?

Volatile chemical substances that elicit specific responses in other members of the same species are referred to as