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Exteroceptors
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Sense Stimuli External to the body. Vision and Hearing are examples.
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Two senses are especially important.
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Interoceptors
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Detects stimuli in the internal organs.
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Doesn't include joints; muscles and stretch are important.
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Chemoreceptors
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Detects chemicals including odor and taste and body fluid composition.
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odor and taste are important.
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Thermoreceptors
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Detects hot/cold in the skin and other places.
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Bare nerves/external stimuli
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Nociceptors
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Detects pain via bare nerve endings
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External stimuli
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Mechanoreceptors
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Responds to physical deformation caused by vibration, touch and pressure
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includes joints, muscles and visceral
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Proprioceptors
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Senses the position and movements of the body or its parts.
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Muscles, joints, tendons and joint capsules.
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Photoreceptors
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Senses light
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think: picture
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What receptors are included by modality?
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chemoreceptors, thermoreceptors, nociceptors,mechanoreceptors and photoreceptors.
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modality means "what type" *There are 5 in this group.
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What receptors are classified by origins of stimuli?
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Exterceptors, interceptors and proprioceptors
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there are 3 in this group
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What three categories would hearing be in?
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Mechanoreceptors, Exteroreceptors and Special Senses.
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Two are by modality and the other is in the special senses group.
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What three categories would touch receptors in the skin be in?
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Mechanoreceptors, Exteroreceptors and General Somesthetic.
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Two are by modality the other is General Somesthetic.
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What do General Somesthetic Senses include?
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Has receptors that are widely distributed throughout the body including: skin, muscles, tendons, joint capsules and viscera.
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Includes the sense of touch, pressure, stretch, heat, cold and pain, blood pressure and blood composition
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