Quiz on Senses
The most independent visually impaired person is one who
has learned to use his other senses efficiently to perform
daily tasks. Even sighted people use their other senses, but
rarely realize this because vision is so powerful. In order to
be an effective teacher of people with vision loss, you must
be familiar with all of the senses, understand how each
sensory system functions, and be able to teach your
students how to use them to live successfully as a person
with little or no vision.
Most adults can name five senses, vision, hearing, smell,
taste, and touch, but few are familiar with the six remaining
sensory systems. Listed below are the eleven sensory
systems that function in humans along with their definitions.
See if you can match each term with its definition.
Fill in the letter of the corresponding definition. Choose the
MOST ACCURATE MATCH for each word
Sensory Systems:
_____Auditory _____Haptic _____tactual
_____Vestibular _____Cognitive _____Kinesthetic
_____Stereognosis _____Visual _____Gustatory
_____Olfactory _____proprioceptive
(A) The sense that provides the ability to discriminate
smell and flavor.
(B) Information gained through touch, where tactual and
kinesthetic systems are involved.
(C) The information processing system, which includes
memory, aptitude, and abstract thinking.
(D) This sense provides the ability to discriminate two-
dimensional objects through receptors in the skin.
(E) Provides one’s sense of balance.
(F) An awareness of the whole body and how the body and
its parts relate to space, muscle memory
(G) Sensory receptors in the muscles, joints, and
connective tissues enable the body to
process information from a variety of stimuli, and turn
that information into specific action.
(H) The sense that processes stimuli carried from the
optical system to the brain.
(I) Stereophonic system through which stimuli travels
along a series of canals to the brain and allows one to
identify a doorbell or telephone ring.
(J) The sensory system used to discriminate texture, size,
and contour through the tip of the tongue and sides of the
mouth.
(K) The sense that enables one to perceive weight, form,
texture, density, etc. to
identify a three-dimensional object.