Pain and language

Question 1

What are the 4 types of sensory receptors?

Answer 1

Thermoreceptors, Mechonoreceptors, chemoreceptors, and nociceptors

Question 2

*Monitor temperature
* Located in the skin and in some parts of the central nervous system (hypothalamus and spinal cord).
*Help maintain stable body temperature.

Answer 2

Thermorecepors

Question 3

• Monitor changes in the distortion of the cell membrane (eg. stretching and bending).
• Divided into 3 subtypes:
  1. Tactile receptors
  2. baroreceptors
  3. proprioceptors

Answer 3

Mechanorecptors

Question 4

What mechanoreceptor is for touch, pressure, vibration?

Answer 4

Tactile receptor

Question 5

What mechanoreceptor is for pressure in blood vessels and vicera?

Answer 5

Barorecptor

Question 6

What mechanoreceptor is for position of skeletal muscles and joints?

Answer 6

Proprioceptor

Question 7

monitors changes in presure, found in blood vessels, heart (not on the skin)

Answer 7

Baroreceptors.

Question 8

what are the 3 types of proprioceptors?

Answer 8

Joint capsule receptors, muscle spindals, Golgi tendon organs.

Question 9

muscle spindle is a type of Proprioceptor responsible for?

Answer 9

Muscle length

Question 10

Goldi tendon organ is a type of proprioceptor responsible for?

Answer 10

Muscle tension

Question 11

Monitior changes in chemicals

Answer 11

chemoreceptors

Question 12

• Detect potential or actual tissue damage (thermal, mechanical, polymodal)
• Found in skin, bones, skeletal muscles, less common in visceral tissues and organs.
• Free nerve ending.

Answer 12

Nociceptors

Question 13

An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage, or described in terms of such damage.

Answer 13

Pain

Question 14

inspired by the biopsychosocial model of pain.

Answer 14

Onion skin model

Question 15

Why do we need pain.

Answer 15

Avoid tissue damage, know when we need to rest

Question 16

how many languages are estimated to be in the world?

Answer 16

7000

Question 17

describes the physical nature of the speech signal

Answer 17

Phonetics

Question 18

Relates to the sound structure of language

Answer 18

Phonology.

Question 19

Speach sounds and the smallest units that distinguish meaning in a given language.

Answer 19

Phonemes.

Question 20

Relates to morphemes.

Answer 20

Morphology

Question 21

can be words in themselves or can combine to create words.

Answer 21

morphemes.

Question 22

Relates to the combination of meaningful units to create sentences.

Answer 22

syntax (grammar)

Question 23

meaning of a larger unit is a function of meanings of its component parts as well as the nature of their combination

Answer 23

compositionality

Question 24

relates to the meaning of linguistic units

Answer 24

Semantics

Question 25

relates to language use.

Answer 25

Pragmatics

Question 26

sounds like an English word but is not a real word

Answer 26

pseudoword

Question 27

when you can start to identify a word.

Answer 27

uniqueness point

Question 28

method for studying the speed and complexity of language processing.

Answer 28

Electroencephalography (EEG)

Question 29

Small changes in the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain that are time-locked to cognitive or sensory events

Answer 29

Event-related potentials

Question 30

language understanding is fast

Answer 30

true

Question 31

EEG allow us to examine how language comprehension process unfolds on a ___level

Answer 31

Millisecon-by-millisecond

Question 32

What are some of the cues used to determine speech stream into words.

Answer 32

sound combination, sound sequence, speech Rythm, word predictability

Question 33

multiple analysis (interpretation) options

Answer 33

Ambiguity