1. The mechanoreceptors are responsible for perceiving this.

a. heat

b. pressure

c. all answers are correct

d. pain

2. Which receptors have on/off responses?

a. both response choices are correct

b. neither response choices are correct

c. Pacinian corpuscles

d. Meissner corpuscles

3. If you held the object with the left hand, what part of your brain would respond to the stimulus?

a. somatosensory cortex in the right hemisphere

b. somatosensory cortex in the left hemisphere

c. motor cortex in the right hemisphere

d. motor cortex in the left hemisphere

4. Which part of the body has the most cortical area dedicated to it?

a. fingertip

b. arm

c. leg

d. butt

5. What is the relationship between homunculus size in the your somatosensory cortex and the density of your Merkel receptors?

a. Greater area = greater density

b. Greater area = less density

c. They are not related

d. all response choices are correct

6. How could you have perceived the texture of the object?

a. both response choices are correct

b. neither response choice is correct

c. by feeling an object without moving across the skin

d. by moving your skin across an object

7. Haptic perception involves the perception of heat.

a. True

b. False

8. Pain sensation involves the direct and indirect stimulation of nocireceptors.

a. True

b. False

9. How does pain sensation differ from pain perception?

a. attention can be diverted from pain

b. expectations can influence pain perception

c. mood can influence pain perception

there are individual differences in pain perception

c. all response choices are correct