Sensory receptors and sensation

Question 1

Sensory receptors
-what do they do
-where are they located and why

Answer 1

-convert energy of stimulus into action potential
-located in sensory organs because they help increase the energy of stimulus to reach the threshold

Question 2

sensation
-when does it occur
-2 examples of evidence
-what is it called when receptors adapt to continuous stimulation and filters out some info

Answer 2

-when the nerve impulse reaches the cerebral cortex of the brain but not the receptor itself
-block transmitter chemical and brain mapping
-sensory adaptation

Question 3

-what can the brain do to process information quickly
-what is the downside

Answer 3

-it can split sensory ifnormation to different parts of the brain
-sometimes it isnt inegreated propwrly and what we sense isnt what we interpret

Question 4

5 senses and their receptors

Answer 4

sight- photoreceptors
smell- chemoreceptors
taste- chemoreceptors
touch/balance- mechanoreceptors
sound-mehcnaorecrptors