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201) The somatosensory system responds to sensory information about a. taste and smell. b. temperature and pressure. c. sound and vision. d. body position and equilibrium. 202) Information about ________ travels to the spinal cord and brain more quickly than information about ________. a. pain; touch b. touch; pain c. touch; vision d. pain; vision 203) The authors mentioned the interesting correlation between natural red hair and lower pain thresholds compared to persons with other natural hair colours. This is most likely to be due to the fact that a. natural pain thresholds cause people to be born with different natural colours of hair. b. genetic factors that impact pain threshold are also somehow related to hair colour. c. natural hair colour causes people to have an increased or decreased pain threshold. d. None of the above was mentioned by the authors as an explanation of the correlation between natural hair colour and pain threshold. 204) Which of the following seems to have an impact on the degree of pain a person might experience? a. Individual thresholds for pain b. Emotional reactivity c. Cultural expectations and background d. All of the above impact a person’s experience of pain. 205) The skin senses are concerned with a. touch, pressure, temperature, and pain. b. the location of body parts in relation to the ground and to each other. c. movement and body position. d. your location as compared to the position of the sun. 206) Which of the following sensory difficulties is likely to be the most dangerous? a. Blindness b. Pain insensitivity c. Loss of smell d. Deafness 207) The ability to detect our balance and keep our balance as we move around in our daily life is known as a. olfaction. b. somatosensory information. c. the vestibular sense. d. the proprioceptive sense. 208) The receptors for the proprioceptive senses are located in the a. inner and middle ears. b. temporal and parietal lobes. c. olfactory and visual cortices. d. muscles and muscle tendons. 209) A disorder of the inner ear would be most likely to impact our a. equilibrium. b. sense of smell. c. hearing. d. sense of pain. 210) What discipline within psychology seeks to optimize the interaction between equipment and technology and our human sensory and perceptual abilities? a. Human factors b. Social psychology c. Industrial-organizational psychology d. Cognitive neuroscience 211) Goals of human factors, or human engineering, include a. increasing safety. b. decreasing physical fatigue. c. increasing ease of use of technology.