Special Senses C 14

Question 1

Somatic nervous system

Answer 1

Is responsible for our conscious perception of the environment and for our voluntary responses to the perception by means of skeletal muscles

Question 2

Exteroceptor

Answer 2

Is a receptor that is located nearest stimulus in the external environment

Question 3

Interoceptor

Answer 3

Is one that interprets stimuli from internal organs and tissues

Question 4

Proprioceptor

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Is a receptor located near moving part of the body such as a muscle that interprets the positions of tissues as they move

Question 5

Free nerve ending

Answer 5

With dendrites in bedded in tissue that would receive a sensation

Question 6

Encapsulated ending

Answer 6

In which the sensory nerve endings are in capsulated and connective tissue that enhances their Sensitivity

Question 7

Receptor cell

Answer 7

Which has the state structural components to interpret a specific type of

Question 8

Photo receptor

Answer 8

The cells in the retina that respond to light stimuli are example of a specialized receptor

Question 9

Chemoreceptor

Answer 9

Chemical stimuli can be interpreted by chemo receptor that interprets chemical stimuli such as an objects taste or smell

Question 10

Osmo receptors

Answer 10

Respond to salute concentrations of body fluids

Question 11

Nociceptor

Answer 11

Additionally pain is primarily chemical sense that interprets the presence of chemical some tissue damage or similar intense tonight through a nociceptor

Question 12

Mechanoreceptor

Answer 12

Physical stimuli such as pressure and vibration as well as the sensation of sound and body position balance are interpreted through a mechanoreceptor

Question 13

Thermoreceptor

Answer 13

Another physical stimulus that has its own type of receptors temperature which is sent through a thermoreceptor that is either sensitive to temperature is above heat or Cold normal normal

Question 14

General sense

Answer 14

Is one that is distributed throughout the body and has a receptor cells within the structures of other organs

Question 15

Special cents

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Is one that has a specific organ devoted to it namely the eye inner ear tongue or nose

Question 16

Sensory modality

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Refers to the way the information is encoded which is similar to the idea of transduction

Question 17

Sub modalities

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Specific categories for sensory modalities

Question 18

Somatosensation

Answer 18

General sense of touch

Question 19

Sensation

Answer 19

The activation of sensory receptor cells at the level of the stimulus

Question 20

Perception

Answer 20

Is the central processing of sensory stimuli into a meaningful pattern

Question 21

Receptors

Answer 21

Are the cells or structures that Detect sensations

Question 22

Ligands

Answer 22

Chemicals that activates receptors

Question 23

Three classifications of receptor cells

Answer 23

Cell type position and function