Question

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14. Which type of sensory receptors most likely responds to a change in blood pressure that causes more force to be exerted on your blood vessels? Explain.
15. Describe the function of the two parts of the motor division of the peripheral nervous system.
16. Is a reflex part of the central nervous system, the peripheral nervous system, or both?
17. Describe a situation in which you would expect your sympathetic nervous system to be more active than your parasympathetic nervous system.
18. What three types of sensations do receptors in the skin respond to?
19. Do you think that the soles of your feet or the back of your neck has the greater concentration of sensory receptors? Explain.
20. What are the five basic tastes detected by taste buds?
21. Why can’t you taste food when you have a bad cold?
22. Which structures in the ear gather information about the position of your body?
23. If you spin around for a time, the fluid in your semicircular canals also moves. When you stop suddenly, why do you think you feel like you are still moving?
24. Identify the relation- ship between the cornea, pupil, lens, retina, and optic nerve and the photoreceptors of the eye.
25. Some people suffer from night blindness. Which type of photoreceptor is likely not func- tioning correctly? Explain.

Answer 1

14. mechanoreceptors
15. somatic and autonomic
16. both
17. running
18. touch, temperature, pain
19. neck
20. salty, bitter, sweet, sour, savory
21. your smell is capable of producing thousands of different sensations and cooperate with chemoreceptors in the mouth to produce taste
22. semicircular canals
23. momentum
24. cornea focuses light into a chamber filled with aqueous humor. pupil controls the amount of light let in. lens focus light on retina. nerve impulses from retina to to optic nerve, which transfers them to brain.
25. rods because they are meant to detect low levels of light.