Sensory Receptors
This type of receptor in your skin detects pressure and touch.
What are mechanoreceptors?
This part of the neuron receives signals from other neurons.
What are dendrites?
This type of signal travels inside a neuron.
What is an electrical signal?
This brain region controls vision (name and key nerve involved in signalling).
What is the occipital lobe and optic nerve?
A person touches a hot stove. These receptors are activated first.
What are thermoreceptors (and nociceptors)?
These receptors allow your eyes to detect light and color.
What are photoreceptors (rods and cones)?
This part carries electrical signals away from the cell body.
What is the axon?
This type of signal travels between neurons.
What is a chemical signal?
This brain region controls breathing and heart rate.
What is the brainstem?
Damage to this brain region would affect hearing and memory.
What is the temporal lobe?
These receptors in your nose and mouth detect chemicals.
What are chemoreceptors?
This structure speeds up nerve impulses by insulating the axon.
What is the myelin sheath?
This structure is the gap between two neurons.
What is the synapse?
What is the cochlea?
A student pulls their hand away from ice quickly. This explains the signal pathway.
What is receptor → neuron → brain → response?
This type of receptor is responsible for detecting pain.
What are nociceptors?
This part releases chemical signals to the next neuron.
What are axon terminals?
These chemicals carry signals across the synapse. Bonus 100, name at least two neurotransmitters!
What are neurotransmitters?
This lobe is responsible for decision-making and personality.
What is the frontal lobe?
If signals move slowly along a neuron, this structure may be damaged.
What is the myelin sheath?
This is the full pathway from detecting a hot object to feeling pain.
What is stimulus → receptor → nerve signal → brain interpretation?
This part processes information inside the neuron.
What is the cell body?
This is the correct sequence of communication between neurons.
What is electrical → chemical → electrical signaling?
This lobe processes touch and spatial awareness.
What is the parietal lobe?
A person cannot interpret visual information despite healthy eyes. This brain region is likely affected.
What is the occipital lobe?