MT2 vocab Flashcards
autonomic
unconscious
autonomic divisions
parasympathetic (rest and digest), sympathetic (fight and flight)
visceral sensory
internal/organs, unconscious
somatic sensory
internal receptors, conscious
somatic motor
external motor output, conscious
autonomic motor
motor output unconscious
PNS divisions
sensory, motor
sensory
afferent input
motor
efferent output
PNS nerves
bundles of axons in the PNS
PNS neuclea
nerve cell bodies in the PNS
perception characteristics (6)
perceptual detection, magnitude, stimulus discrimination, feature abstraction, quality discrimination, pattern recognition
transduction
initial conversion of a stimulus into a readable neural signal
transmission
carrying the converted and readable signal
receptors can detect:
modality, location, strength, duration
rods
light
cones
details
what does the fovea centrals not contain
rods
sphincter pupillae
contracts by parasympathetic innervation
dilator pupillae
contracts by sympathetic innervation
general sense division
somatic, visceral
somatic sense
body motions, joints, muscles, bones… per the environment
visceral sense
internal organs and blood vessels
hippocampus encoding
store memory in hippocampus
excitement, rehearsal, association