senses

Question 1

sensation

Answer 1

process initiated by stimuli acting on receptors

Question 2

perception

Answer 2

conscious awareness of those sensations

Question 3

general senses

Answer 3

receptors distributed over a large part of the body
aps called generator potentials that travel to brain

Question 4

general somatic

Answer 4

info about body and the environment
touch, pressure, temp, proprioception and pain

Question 5

general visceral

Answer 5

info about internal organs
pain and pressure

Question 6

special mechanism of action

Answer 6

receptors produce receptor potential that receptor releases a neuro transmitter that binds to receptors on membrane of neuron and then travels to brain

Question 7

special senses

Answer 7

smell, taste, sight, hearing, balance

Question 8

receptors based on stimuli they detect (5)

Answer 8

mechanoreceptors
chemoreceptors
thermoreceptors
photoreceptors
nocicirecptors

Question 9

receptors based on location

Answer 9

cutaneous
visceoreceptors
propiorecptors

Question 10

mechanoreceptors

Answer 10

mechanical force
compression, bending, stretching propioception, balance hearing

Question 11

chemoreceptors

Answer 11

smell and taste
chemicals attach to receptors

Question 12

thermoreceptors

Answer 12

change in temperature

Question 13

photoreceptors

Answer 13

light–vision

Question 14

nocioreceptors

Answer 14

extreme mechanical, chemo or thermal stim
PAIN
more than one stimuli

Question 15

cutaneous

Answer 15

provide info about external environment
associated with skin

Question 16

viseroreccptors

Answer 16

associated with pain

Question 17

propiorecptors

Answer 17

joints tendons
associated with stretch

Question 18

free nerve endings

Answer 18

simplest, most common
throughout body
cold (way more than warm)
warm
and pain–from both warm and cold

Question 19

merkle disks senses

Answer 19

light touch and superficial pressure

Question 20

merkle disks characteristics

Answer 20

axonal branches end as flattened expansions
basal layer of epidermis
in dome shaped mounds of epidermis in hairy skin

Question 21

hair follicles

Answer 21

light touch
not localized bc areas overlap

Question 22

Pacinian (lamellated)

Answer 22

deep touch; vibration, propioception of joints
deep dermis or hypodermis
single dendrite extends to eachother

Question 23

meisner

Answer 23

two point discrimination; used to determine texture
in dermal papillae
numerous and close together on tongue and finger tips

Question 24

ruffini end organ

Answer 24

continuous touch
primarily in dermis of fingers

Question 25

muscle spindle

Answer 25

involved in stretch of skeletal muscle
important in tone and postural muscles

Question 26

golgi tendon organs

Answer 26

associated with tendons
proprioception and stretch associated with tendons