Lab Experiment 2 - Ear and Eye Flashcards
information we gather from our senses is essential for what three things?
our intellectual functioning
our personality development
our life sustaining properties
if we are missing the ability to sense pressure or pain and we can’t react to that stimulus then what won’t be able to do?
remove ourselves from the harmful stimulus
sensory receptors are our structures specialized to detect what?
the senses
sensory receptors also convert one form of energy to what?
another form of energy
sensory receptors can convert light or sound into what?
a nerve signal
the sense organs are specialized structures composed of what?
nerve tissue and other types of tissue that work to enhance the response that we gather from the environment and from the sensory receptors
what do thermoreceptors respond to?
hear or cold
what do photoreceptors respond to?
lights
where are photoreceptors found
in our eye
what do chemoreceptors respond to and gather?
chemicals
odors
taste
what do nociceptors respond to?
pain
general senses and the receptors for these senses are widely distributed throughout the body in places like what?
muscles
joints
in our organs
general senses respond to stimuli such as what?
general touch
pain
temperature
the special senses are limited to what area of the body?
the head
what type of nerves innervate the special senses?
cranial
