Receptors

Question 1

General sensations

Answer 1

pain, temp, touch, vibration

Question 2

Special sensations,

Answer 2

see, smell, hear, balance, taste

Question 3

Process of sensation

Answer 3

stimulation, conversion, generate impulses, and integration

Question 4

Simple vs complex receptors.

Answer 4

simple- free nerve endings
complex- encapsulate nerve endings
both- unipolar

Question 5

Special sense receptors

Answer 5

respond to certain stimuli & BIPOLAR

Question 6

Mehanoreceptors

Answer 6

pressure, stretch, touch, vibration, proprioception

3 types- baroreceptors, proprioceptors, and tactile

Question 7

Chemoreceptors

Answer 7

detect molecules

ex. carotid body and aortic bodies

Question 8

Nociceptors

Answer 8

detect pain, free nerve endings

Question 9

Fast pain vs Slow pain

Answer 9

Fast- type A, not felt in deep tissue

Slow- type C

Question 10

Thermoreceptors

Answer 10

detect temp., free nerve endings

Question 11

Tactile receptors

Answer 11

pressure and vibration

free nerve endings, root hair plexus, Merkel’s dics, Meissner’s corpuscles, Pacinian corpuscles, Ruffini

Question 12

Pacinian corpuscle

Answer 12

(encapsulated)- high frequency vibration

Question 13

Meissner’s corpuscles

Answer 13

low frequency vibration

ex. eyelids, lips, fingertip, nip