sensory perception

Question 1

What are the 5 external stimuli?

Answer 1

• visual (sight)
• auditory (hearing)
• olfactory (smell)
• tactile (touch)
• gustatory (taste)

Question 2

What are the three types of internal stimuli?

Answer 2

• gustatory (taste)
• kinaesthetic (movement and position)
• visceral (relating to large organs, eg full stomach or bladder)

Question 3

What are the 4 aspects of the sensory process?

Answer 3

• stimulus
• receptor
• impulse conduction
• perception

Question 4

What are the 6 states of awareness?

Answer 4

• full consciousness
• disoriented
• confused
• somnolent
• semicomatose
• comatose

Question 5

What are the main common refractive errors of the lens?

Answer 5

• myopia (near-sightedness)
• hyperopia (short-sightedness)
• presbyopia (loss of elasticity of lens, loss of ability to see close objects)
• astigmatism - uneven curvature of the cornea