Receptor Classification By Location

Question 0

Where are Exteroceptors found?

Answer 0

Near the body surface (skin).

Including the special sense organs (eye, ear, nose, taste buds).

Question 1

What type of stimuli do Exteroceptors respond to?

Answer 1

Stimuli arising outside the body

Question 2

What are Exteroceptors sensitive to?

Answer 2

Touch
Pressure
Pain
Temperature
(I.e. Merkel Disc, pacinian corpuscle, free nerve endings)

Question 3

What are Interoceptors?

Answer 3

Respond to stimuli arising WITHIN the body

Question 4

Where are Interoceptors found?

Answer 4

In internal viscera & blood vessels.

Including baroceptors & chemoreceptors.

Question 5

What are Interoceptors sensitive to?

Answer 5

Chemical changes, smooth muscle stretch, and core body temperature changes.

Question 6

What are Proprioceptors?

Answer 6

Respond to degrees of stretch of the associated structures.

Continuously inform the brain of one’s movements & position in space.

Question 7

Where are Proprioceptors found?

Answer 7

In skeletal muscles, tendons, joints, ligaments, and connective tissue coverings of bones & muscle.

(Muscle spindles & Golgi tendon organ)