____________________ refers to the point at which a stimulus is strong enough to be detected by activating sensory receptors.

Related MCQs

• , the receptors within the endocrine gland register that there is enough hormone circulating and turn off production and/or release of any more hormone at some cut-off point, known as:
• _________________ carries sensory information via afferent nerve fibers from receptors throughout the body to the brain and conducts information via efferent nerve fibers from the brain to muscles and glands.
• The ________________ nervous system communicates sensory information received by sense organ receptors to the central nervous system and carries messages from the central nervous system along motor nerves to the muscles.
• ___________________ is the long, thin, blunt sensory receptors that are highly sensitive to light but not color and are primarily responsible for peripheral vision and night vision.
• _________________ is the specialized sensory receptors for taste that are located on the tongue and inside the mouth and the throat.
• ___________________ is based on the idea that sensory information can be detected by some means other than through the normal processes of sensation.
• Hair cells are involved in all of the following receptors except
• ______________ is a poison that paralyzes lung muscles by occupying critical acetylcholine receptors, preventing the normal activity of the transmitter.
• The __________________ is a band of tissue on the parietal lobe that receives information from touch receptors in different parts of the body.
• Which part is known as the ‘ relay centre’ and transmit almost all the sensory messages?