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18 Cards in this Set
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Sensory Receptors |
Specialized cells that monitor specific conditions inside or outside your body. |
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General Senses |
Senses of temperature, pain, touch, pressure, vibration, and proprioception. |
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Sensation |
Arrival of information via action potentials |
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Perception |
The conscious awareness of a sensation. |
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Special Senses |
Smell, taste, vision, balance, and hearing |
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Free Nerve Endings |
The branching tips of dendrites |
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Receptive Field |
The area monitored by a single sensory receptor. |
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Adaptation |
Is a reduction in sensitivity in the presence of a constant stimulus |
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Proprioceptors |
Report the positions of skeletal muscles and joints |
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Nociceptors |
Pain receptors |
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Thermoreceptors |
Sensitivity to temperature changes. |
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Mechanoreceptors |
Receptors that are sensitive to stimuli that distort their cell membranes |
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Baroreceptors |
Monitor changes in pressure in blood vessels, respiratory, digestive, reproductive, and urinary tract. |
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Golgi Tendon Organs |
-Located at the junction between a skeletal muscle and its tendon. -Stimulated by tension in the tendon. |
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Joint Capsule Receptors |
Contributes to awareness of joint position and movement
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Somatic Sensory Pathways |
Relay sensory information from head, neck, body wall, and limbs to CNS. |
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Somatic Motor Pathways |
-The nuclei, motor tracts, and motor neurons that control peripheral effectors -Controls the contractions of skeletal muscles. |
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Visceral Motor Pathways |
Controls visceral effectors such as smooth/cardiac muscle and glands. |
