Deck 7: Sensory

Question 1

The term that best describes the body's ability to receive information about its environment through its senses is known as______________.

A)Reception
B)Perception
C)Sensation
D)Deduction

Answer 1

Reception

Question 2

Drugs that are ototoxic affect which sense?

A)Smell
B)Touch
C)Hearing
D)Tasting

Answer 2

Hearing

Question 3

Which of the following factors can affect sensory function?

A)Personality
B)Culture
C)Medication
D)All of the above

Answer 3

All of the above

Question 4

Kynes is blind. What term best describes the type of disorder that he has?

A)Sensory overload
B)Sensory deficit
C)Sensory deprivation
D)None of the above

Question 5

Disorders of the nervous system that occur as a result of a cancer or tumor in a different area of the body are known as:

A)Comorbidity
B)Secondary neurological disorder
C)Neuritis
D)Paraneoplastic syndrome

Question 6

Which of the following is a somatic sense?

A)Pressure
B)Temperature
C)Vibration
D)All of the above

Question 7

Each individual has their own range of comfort when it occurs to different somatic senses. Which of the following terms means that a sense is at the perfect level (i.e. not too light or too heavy)?

A)Sensory stasis
B)Static stomaticism
C)Perfect perception
D)None of the above

Question 8

What term describes the ability of sensory receptors to change their response based on repeated stimuli?

A)Stasis
B)Adaptation
C)Perception
D)Reception

Question 9

Which photoreceptor cells are responsible for color vision and help create very sharp images?

A)Cones
B)Rods
C)Rhodopsin
D)Cochlea

Question 10

Vibrations of this membrane are part of the hearing process:

A)Auditory membrane
B)Auditory meatus
C)Tympanic membrane
D)None of the above

Question 11

Shingles is a disorder caused by which virus that may cause neuralgia after the primary symptoms subside?

A)Herpes-Zoster
B)Mumps
C)Influenza
D)HIV

Question 12

Which of the following is a widely used method for quantifying neurological deficits in stroke victims?

A)Wong-Baker
B)NIHSS
C)CRIES scale
D)None of the above

Question 13

Strokes can leave a patient with many lasting sensory deficits. Within what time frame of the actual stroke occurrence is a clot-buster drug most beneficial?

A)1 day
B)30 minutes
C)3 hours
D)48 hours

Question 14

Which of the following therapies are most useful to patients who are suffering from sensory deficits?

A)Physical therapy
B)Massage therapy
C)Music/art therapy
D)Occupational therapy

Question 15

The inability of the body to organize and process sensation from oneself and the environment is known as:

A)Sensory integration dysfunction
B)Sensational deficit dysfunction
C)Environmental sensation dysfunction
D)None of the above

Question 16

The sensation of feeling that results from skin stimulation is known as:

A)Vestibular
B)Tactile
C)Integumental
D)Both B and C

Question 17

Which of the following sensory dysfunctions is related to the ear and its processes?

A)Tactile
B)Auditory
C)Vestibular
D)Both B and C

Question 18

Meniere's disease is a vestibular dysfunction as a result of a build-up of what substance in the inner ear?

A)Blood
B)Endolymph
C)Lymphatic fluid
D)Plasma

Question 19

Acoustic Neuromas are caused by an overproduction of which type of cell?

A)Schwann cells
B)White blood cells
C)Auditory cells
D)None of the above

Question 20

Which of the following conditions refers to an abnormal amount of bone growth in the inner ear?

A)Osteporosis
B)Osteogenesis
C)Otosclerosis
D)None of the above

Question 21

The amount of stimulation needed for a sensation to be perceived is known as the:

A)Perception point
B)Simulation point
C)Threshold
D)None of the above

Question 22

The hearing loss associated with aging is known as:

A)Ototoxicity
B)Presbycusis
C)Hypochochlearation
D)Auditory declination

Question 23

An abnormal and persistent noise occurring in the ear is known as:

A)Tinnitus
B)Sound over-production
C)Prebycusis
D)None of the above

Question 24

Visual acuity refers to the level of what part of your vision?

A)Color
B)Sharpness
C)Distance
D)None of the above

Question 25

Changes in taste due to age occur because taste buds:

A)Lose mass
B)Decrease in physical amount
C)Both A and B
D)Neither A nor B

Question 26

Which term refers to the absence of pain?

A)Analgesia
B)Anesthesia
C)Hypesthesia
D)Both A and B

Question 27

Which of the following refers to an alteration of sensation?

A)Paresthesia
B)Dysesthesia
C)Both A and B
D)Neither A nor B

Question 28

Frank smelled a foul odor as he passed a group of cows. What type of receptors is causing his brain to receive this message?

A)Physical receptors
B)Chemoreceptors
C)Cowreceptors
D)Methane based receptors

Question 29

The sense of taste that Herbert gets by eating his favorite meal is controlled by:

A)Taste cells
B)Nerve fibers
C)Microvilli
D)None of the above

Question 30

The nerve fibers responsible for taste carry additional impulses to the brain, indicating which of the following?

A)Temperature information
B)Tactile information
C)Both A and B
D)Neither A nor B

Question 31

Which of the following is not a substance to which taste neurons react?

A)Salty
B)Sweet
C)Bitter
D)Foul

Question 32

The olfactory sense can receive information through which of the following areas?

A)Nostrils
B)Throat
C)Ears
D)Both A and B

Question 33

Jessica did not take a shower and felt that she was giving off a foul odor. In order to not offend her co-workers, she sprayed herself with a mild perfume. Which of the following best describes why this might be successful?

A)One odor can mask another odor when sensed together.
B)Odors that are received together can often times be perceived as no odor at all.
C)Both A and B
D)Neither A nor B

Question 34

Why can Frank "sense" the movement of his muscles as he works out?

A)He has Bene Gesserit receptors.
B)He has proprioceptors.
C)He has exteroceptors.
D)None of the above

Question 35

Paul has just left a bar and is showing signs of ataxia. What is he doing?

A)Vomiting
B)Screaming
C)Crying
D)Staggering

Question 36

Duke Leto is sleeping. Which of the following would accurately describe his provider's discussion of this fact?

A)Duke Leto's state of arousal appears to be sleeping.
B)Duke Leto is comatose.
C)Duke Leto is sleeping comfortably.
D)Duke Leto is resting.

Question 37

Color blindness is as a result of dysfunction or lack of which part of the eye?

A)Rods
B)Cones
C)Iris
D)Cornea

Question 38

In Weber's test, which type of hearing loss is being tested?

A)Conduction
B)Nerve
C)Both A and B
D)Neither A nor B

Question 39

Conduction hearing loss can be measured through:

A)Rinne's test
B)Weber's test
C)Crystal's test
D)None of the above