Muscle spindles are stretch receptors that are located
a. in our joints.
b. at the junction between the muscles and the tendons.
c. in the vestibular apparatus.
d. in our tendons.
e. throughout the muscle.
e. throughout the muscle.
You might also like to view...
If you were asked to look at an advertisement of various shops on a city street, and you saw an octopus sitting on a bench near the curb in front of one of the shops, you would most likely
a. show inattentional blindness to the octopus. b. look longer at the octopus because it was an unexpected object. c. look a shorter time at the octopus because it was out-of-place in the advertisement. d. look the same length of time to each object in the advertisement, regardless of whether it was an expected or unexpected object.
Concerning REM and NREM sleep, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. NREM sleep is dream-free about 90 percent of the time. b. Your first period of Stage 1 sleep usually lacks REMs and dreams. c. Brain areas associated with imagery and emotion become significantly less active during REM sleep. d. REM sleep may stimulate the developing brain in newborn babies.
The processes by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved is called
a. priming. c. learning. b. memory. d. cueing.
Which is the most common visual impairment in late adulthood?
a. Macular degeneration b. Cataracts c. Tinnitus d. Glaucoma