Identify the true statement(s) about sensory receptors:
A) The larger the receptor potential, the greater the frequency of action potentials initiated in the afferent neuron.
B) Tonic receptors often exhibit an "off-response."
C) Phasic receptors are important in situations where maintained information about a stimulus is valuable.
D) Receptor adaptation results from nerve fatigue.
E) Receptors are part of efferent neurons.
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Q8: Which is characteristic of fast pain?
A)poorly localized
B)occurs
Q9: Polymodal nociceptors
A)respond only to mechanical damage such
Q10: Phasic receptors
A)exhibit an "off-response"
B)signal a change in
Q11: Identify the true statement(s) about receptors:
A)They may
Q12: Receptor potentials
A)are always depolarizations
B)are graded potentials
C)have refractory
Q14: The smaller the receptive fields in a
Q15: Receptors
A)experience action potentials in response to stimuli
B)receive
Q16: The slow pain pathway is activated by
A)stimulation
Q17: Select the incorrect association:
A)chemoreceptor/oxygen concentration
B)mechanoreceptor/skeletal muscle stretch
C)nociceptor/solute
Q18: Tonic receptors
A)adapt rapidly
B)frequently exhibit an "off-response"
C)can measure
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