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MODULE 11: SENSES Flashcards

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Process initiated by stimulating sensosry receptors.

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Sensation

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2
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Concious awareness of stimuli received by sensory neurons

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Perception

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3
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Means by which the brain receieves information about environment and the body.

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Senses

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4
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Nerve ending specialized cells capable of respondint to stimuli

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Sensory Receptors

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5
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Respond to mechanical stimuli

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Mechanoreceptors

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6
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Responds to chemicals

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Chemoreceptors

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7
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Respond to light

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Photoreceptors

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8
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Respond to temperature changes

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Thermoreceptors

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9
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Respond to stimuli that results in sensation of pain

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Nocireceptors

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10
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Types of sensory receptors

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  1. Free Nerve Endings
  2. Temperature Receptors
  3. Touch Receptors
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11
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Simplest and common types of receptor

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Free Nerve Endings

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12
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Can only respond to temperature between 12°c and 47°c

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Temperature receptors

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13
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Respond to decreasing temperature

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Cold Receptors

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14
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Respond to increasing temperature

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Warm Receptors

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15
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More complex and most are enclosed by capsules

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Touch Receptors

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16
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Small, superficial nerve endings: detects light touch and superficial pressure

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Merkel Disks

17
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Detect light but not discriminative

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Hair Follicle Receptors

18
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Deep to epidermis; for fine and discriminative touch

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Meissner Corpuscles

19
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Deeper tactile receptors; detect continuous pressure in skin

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Ruffini Corpuscles

20
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Deepest receptors associated with tendons and joints

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Pacinian Corpuscles

21
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Group of unpleasant perceptual and emotional experience

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Pain

22
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Two types of pain

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  1. Localized
  2. Diffuse
23
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Sharp, picking, resulting to rapidly conducted action potential

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Localized

24
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Burning or aching, resulting from action potential that propagated slowly

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Diffuse

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