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14 Cards in this Set
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sensory receptors
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react to changes/ stimuli within and without the body
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sense organs
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large complex receptors for the special senses
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special senses
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sight, hearing, equilibrium, smell and taste
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exteroceptors
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react to stimuli in the external environment
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interoceptors
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react to stimuli within the body
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phantom limb pain
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feeling pain in an amputated limb
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projection
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process by which the brain refers sensation to their usual point of stimulation
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refferred pain
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sensory experience in which pain is percieved as arising in one area of the body when another is recieving the pain stimulus
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adaptation
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the decline of the conscious awareness of repeated or prolonged experience
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tactile localization
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the ability to determine which portion of the skin has been touched
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proprioceptors
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respond to internal stimuli only for skeletal muscles, tendons, joints, ligaments, and connective tissue coverings of bones and muscles provide info on position and degree of stretch
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general sensory receptors
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cutaneous receptors and proprioceptors and anatomically simpler
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punctate distribution
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clustering of sensory receptors in discrete locations
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two point threshold
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the smallest distance at which two points of contact can be felt
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