Receptors Flashcards
What are receptors?
Help to register stimuli and is interpreted by nervous system
What are the different types of receptors
General receptors
Special sensory receptors
Interoceptors
Exteroceptors
What are General receptors?
Modified dendrites of sensory neutrons and are distributed through the body.
E.g receptors in the skin
What are special sensory receptors?
Receptors cells found in head region and may be
Complex sensory organs - eyes and ears
Epithelial structures - taste buds, olfactory epithelium
What are Interoceptors?
Respond to stimuli inside the body
E.g so preceptors and propriorecptors
What are propriorecptors?
Receptors that register the amount of stretch of the organs they are found in
What Exteroceptors?
They are stimulated by external stimuli in the environment
What is stimuli
Changes that all living organisms able to detect and respond to
