Receptor Class by Location

Question 0

Interceptors

Answer 0

Respond to stimuli arising within the body. Found in internal viscera and blood vessels. Sensitive to chemical changes, stretch, and temperature changes

Question 1

Exteroceptors

Answer 1

Respond to stimuli arising outside the body. Found near the body surface. Sensitive to touch, pressure, pain, and temperature.

Question 2

Proprioceptors

Answer 2

Respond to degree of stretch of the organs they occupy
Found in skeletal muscles, tendons, joints, ligaments, and connective tissue coverings of bones and muscles
Constantly “advise” the brain of one’s movements

Question 3

Structural Complexity

Answer 3

Receptors are classified as simple or complex.

Simple receptors include encapsulated and unencapuslated varieties

Complex receptors are special sense Organs

Question 4

Simple Receptors: Unencapsulated

Answer 4

Free dendritic nerve endings

Respond

Question 5

Special Receptors: Encapsulated

Answer 5

Messiner’s corpuscles

Pacinan corpuscles

Muscle spindles, Golgi tendon organs and Ruffini’s corpuscles

Joint kinesthetic receptors