Which of the Following Is TRUE About Various Types of Somatosensation

question 115

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is TRUE about various types of somatosensation?

• A) They are produced by varied responses by a single type of receptor.
• B) They involve different receptors, but the spinal cord integrates the information.
• C) They remain separate through the spinal cord, but are interpreted by a single set of cortical neurons.
• D) They are at least partly distinct all the way from the receptors to the cerebral cortex.

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Definitions:

Negatively Skewed

Describes a distribution of values where the tail on the left side of the probability density function is longer or fatter than the right side, indicating a majority of the data lies to the right of the mean.

Frequency Polygon

Line graph that uses data points to represent the frequency of each value of a variable.

Skewed Distribution

A distribution where the tails on one side of the mean are longer or fatter, indicating lack of symmetry.

Frequency Distribution

A representation, often in the form of a table or graph, of how the values in a data set are distributed across categories or intervals.