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13 Cards in this Set
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The 'raw' form in which receptors send information to the brain
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Sensation
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The way the brain interprets the sensation
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Perception
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A receptor that generates a burst of action potentials when first stimulated then adapt quickly and stop transmtting impulses even though the stimulus is still there
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Phasic receptor
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A receptor that adapts slowly and generate nerve impulses continuously
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Tonic receptors
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Conscious awareness declines quickly if stimulus is prolonged
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Sensory adaptation
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respond to chemicals (odor, tase, body fluid composition)
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Chemoreceptors
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respond to temperature
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Thermoreceptors
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receptors that respond to tissue damage from trauma, ischemia, or excessive stimulation like heat or chemicals
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Nociceptors
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respond to physical deformity from touch, pressure, stretch, tnesion, or vibration
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Mechanoreceptors
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respond to light
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Photoreceptors
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detech stimuli in internal organs and produce feelings of visceral pain, nausea, stretch, pressure
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Interoceptors (visceroreceptors)
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sense position and movements of the body or its parts and occure in muscle, joint capsules, and tendons
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Proprioceptors
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sense stimuli external to the body and include receptors for vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch, and cutaneous pain
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Exteroceptors
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