46. Sensory Systems

Which element of fitness requires sensory input from the eyes, ears, and proprioceptors?

Congenital sensorineural deafness most commonly involves damage to which of the following structures?

What is the primary function of the sensory system in animals?

Lisa is eating dinner. Which sensory organs is she most likely using to process what she is eating?

Although we often assume that our sense organs are reporting a complete picture of the world to our brains, in fact the world is full of stimuli (very low frequency sound, cosmic rays, electrical fields, etc.) that our sense organs cannot detect. This situation is best characterized as a failure of our sense organs to do what to these stimuli?

You look all over for your glasses and then find them pushed back onto your forehead. This error could be attributed to __________.

A fish detects vibrations in the water around it by means of its lateral lines, rows of sensory receptors along each side of the body. Based on what you know about sensory receptors, the lateral line receptors are probably which of the following?

If we wait too long between meals, our blood glucose levels drop. Which receptors will respond to this decrease in blood glucose?

Which of the following classes of sensory receptors consists of neurons with naked dendrites?

The round window is found __________.

Organs in the inner ear of mammals are the cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibule. Match them to their functions.

Sitting too close to the amplifiers at a concert may __________.

The brain determines the loudness of a sound from the __________.

If the basilar membranes in the ears were equal in width and flexibility along their length, how would this affect a person's sense of hearing?

A person born without otoliths in the ears would be __________.