Week 11 - Sensations And Motor Control Flashcards
(18 cards)
What are the classifications of sensory receptors by stimulus type?
Mechanoreceptors (touch, pressure, vibration, stretch), Thermoreceptors (change in temperature), Photoreceptors (respond to light), Chemoreceptors (chemicals in solution, air, smell or taste) and Nociceptors (damaging chemicals, extreme hot/cold, excessive pressure).
What are the classifications of sensory receptors by location?
Exteroceptors (outside body or on surface), Interoceptors (Inside body, visceral) and Proprioceptors (respond to internal stimuli, advise brain on body position).
What is the location and function of tactile receptors?
What is the location and function of thermal receptors?
What is the location and function of nocicoceptors?
What is the location and function of proprioceptors?
What are the major steps in processing olfactory stimulation?
What are the major steps in processing gustory stimulation?
What are the major steps in processing visual information?
What are the major steps in processing auditor sensory information?
What are the components of a reflex arc?
What is the basic control of walking (gait)?
What is the location and function of upper motor neurons in the somatic nervous system?
What is the location and function of lower motor neurons in the somatic nervous system?
Describe the process of muscle cell contraction
Describe the organisation of skeletal muscle?
What are key features of chemical transmission at the neuromuscular junction?
Describe the process of chemical transmission at a neuromuscular junction.
