Taste receptors are located:

Related Mcqs:

1. The receptors in hypothalamus that detect the stimulus of smell, taste and blood carbon dioxide concentration is:

   A. Photoreceptors
   B. Mechanoreceptors
   C. Chemoreceptors
   D. All of the above

2. Taste aversions are a type of classical conditioning, and if there is a long delay between the CS and US, conditioning is usually prevented. The fact that people and animals can be develop taste aversions even though sickness occurs long after eating indicates that:

   A. taste aversions are really more like operant conditioning
   B. taste aversions can be unlearned as well
   C. there is a biological tendency to associate sickness with any food eaten earlier
   D. there is less aversion associated with the actual sickness than with whatever caused the sickness in the first place

3. The collection of rod and cone receptors that funnel signals to a particular visual cell in the retina make up that cell’s:

   A. blind spot
   B. optic disk
   C. opponent process field
   D. receptive field

4. Receptors for the kinesthetic sense are found in the:

   A. cochlea
   B. basilar membrane
   C. ligaments and tendons
   D. joints and muscles

5. When visual information out an object is perceived, which model of perceptual processing emphasizes on-going feedback between the higher centers of the brain(e.g., cognition) and the early stages of processing (e.g., sensory receptors)?

   A. Recurrent processing model
   B. Serial processing model
   C. Parallel processing model
   D. Selective adaptation model

6. In what way (s) is the sense of taste like the sense of smell?

   A. There are four primary stimulus groups for both senses
   B. both systems are routed through the thalamus on the way to the cortex
   C. The physical stimuli for both senses are chemical substances dissolved in fluid
   D. All of the above

7. The sense associated with the perception of taste is referred to as the:

   A. Gustatory system
   B. Vestibular system
   C. Vagus system
   D. Kinesthesia system

8. Receptors are generally referred to as chemicals are ___________?

   A. visual and auditory
   B. auditory and temperature
   C. gustation and olfaction
   D. temperature and pressure

9. Which of the following receptors is found in skin?

   A. Meissner corpuscle (touch)
   B. Pacini corpuscles (pressure)
   C. Free nerve endings (pain)
   D. All of the above

10. In skin the receptors are concerned with which of the following senses:

    A. Touch and pressure
    B. Pain
    C. Heat and Cold
    D. All of the above