General Sensations

Question 1

process signals received from the environment

PSN

Answer 1

sensory receptors

Question 2

assigning meaning to sensation information

Answer 2

perception

Question 3

pain

Answer 3

Free nerve endings

Question 4

deep pressure

Answer 4

pacinian Corpuscle

Question 5

touch stroking & fluttering

Answer 5

Reissner’s Corpuscles

Question 6

touch

Answer 6

Merkel cells

Question 7

heat

Answer 7

Ruffini’s corpuscles

Question 8

cold

Answer 8

Krause’s Corpuscles

Question 9

depends on interaction of:
chemicals
mechanical forces
heat 
light
sound

Answer 9

Sensation

Question 10

Sensation divided into 2

Answer 10

General and Specialized

Question 11

General Sensation divided into 2

Answer 11

Somatic and Visceral

Question 12

info. about touch, pressure, temp. proprioception (position) and nociception (pain)

Answer 12

Somatic

Question 13

info. about internal organs

composed to pressure and pain receptors

Answer 13

Viscera;

Question 14

part of a general sensation are widely districts throughout the body

Answer 14

Mechanoreceptors

Question 15

when we become aware of the sensory information and assign meaning to it

requires selective attention of the cerebral cortez

Answer 15

perception

Question 16

what is the process by which sensory information is interpreted in a meaningful form?

Answer 16

perception

Question 17

what ways to classify sensory receptors

Answer 17

1. Location
2. Modality
3. Structure

Question 18

Location:

Answer 18

Externoreceptors

Interoceptors

Question 19

respond to stimuli originating in the external environment

situated at or near body surfaces

Includes: Receptors in the skin:
touch, pressure, pain, and temp.

Answer 19

Externoreceptors

Question 20

respond to changes in body’s internal environment

visceral interoceptors: detect changes within internal organs Ej. baroreceptors

Somatic interoceptors: found within musculoskeletal structures detect body interaction with environment

Answer 20

Interoceptors

Question 21

are lacked by visceral organs

Answer 21

proprioceptors

Question 22

respond to one specific type of stimulus

Answer 22

sensory modality

Question 23

senses changes in temperature

Answer 23

thermoreceptors

Question 24

senses changes in chemicals

ej. blood and pH

Answer 24

chemoreceptors

Question 25

senses mechanical stress and changes in: 1. pressure 2. cell volume and shape 3. gravity 4. touch 5. position 6. itch 7. movement

Answer 25

Mechanoreceptors

Question 26

respond to solute concentrations of body fluids

Answer 26

omoreceptors

Question 27

provide cognitive awareness of body in space

Answer 27

proprioreptors

Question 28

sense tissue damage, physical trauma, or thermal injury

Answer 28

nociceptors

Question 29

Free nerve ending: myelinated neuron with encapsulated terminal sensory cell that directly synapse onto neurons neuron with peripheral process

Answer 29

By structure

Question 30

What is the simplest sensory receptor

Answer 30

Free nerve ending

Question 31

the loss of responsiveness at the sensory receptor level in the presence of constant stimulus

Answer 31

sensory adaptation

Question 32

sensitivity declines as sensory receptor level

Answer 32

peripheral adaptation

Question 33

detect onset and set of a stimulus

Answer 33

rapid adapting

Question 34

respond to both the presence of and intensity of the stimulus

Answer 34

slow adapting

Question 35

the limitations on the ability of a sensory neuron to respond to a stimulus

Answer 35

sensory adaptation

Question 36

sensation generated by a sensory neurons and all its receptors

Answer 36

sensory unit

Question 37

are of the surface covered by a single sensory unit

Answer 37

Receptive field