Sensory Systems Flashcards
What are the types of senses?
1) Vision
2) Auditory
3) Pain
4) Touch
5) Vestibular (balance)
6) Kinesthetic (body position, movement)
7) Tempurature
8) Taste
9) Smell
What are the types of stimuli?
1) Electromagnetic
2) Mechanical
3) Thermal
4) Chemical
Name the electromagnetic stimuli.
Vision
Name the mechanical stimuli.
1) Hearing
2) Touch
3) Pain
4) Vestibular
5) Kinesthetic
Name thermal stimuli.
1) Cold
2) Warmth
Name chemical stimuli.
1) Taste
2) Smell
What is the significance of perception and sensation?
Up until the point of perception, you don’t know something is happening.
What are types of sensory receptors?
1) Chemoreceptors
2) Mechanoreceptors
3) Photoreceptors
4) Thermoreceptors
What is an example of photoreceptors stimuli?
Photons of light.
What are examples of thermoreceptors stimuli?
Varying degress of heat.
What are examples of mechanoreceptors stimuli?
Plessure (barorecptors), cell stretch (osmoreceptors), vibration, acceleraction, sound.
What are examples of chemoreceptors stimuli?
Oxygen, pH, various organic molecules such as glucose.
What is sensory processing?
Filtering hte environment information (stimuli) influencing quality/quantity of information.
What does sensory registry do?
Prolongs stimuli after it is no longer physically present.
What does verdical do?
Verdical preserves most of the physical details of the stimuls.
