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34 Cards in this Set
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Sensory receptors are based on? Which is? |
Modality. Type of environmental change |
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Chemoreceptors detect? Thermoreceptors detect? Mechanorecptors detect? Photoreceptors detect? Nociceptors are? |
Chemical change Temperature change Mechanical forces Light change Pain receptors |
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Somatosensory senses are located where? |
Throughout the body |
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Special senses are ? |
Special organs located in the head. |
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What Cortexs are in the parietal lobe? |
Somatosensory cortex Gustatory cortex |
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Somatosensory cortex is for ? |
Touch, pain |
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Gustatory cortex is for ? |
Taste |
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What cortex is in the occipital lobe? |
Visual cortex |
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What cortexs are in the temporal lobe? |
Olfactory cortex Auditory cortex |
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Olfactory cortex does what? |
Perceives smell |
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Cutaneous receptors=? |
Skin |
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A large receptive field will perceive as? A small receptive field will perceive as?
if you increase the touch receptor density you? |
One point of touch Two points of touch
Increase the fine sensation |
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In order to focus what plays an important role in stretching? |
Lens |
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Order that the light goes in in the eye? |
Cornea Lens Retina Fovea |
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Photoreceptors consist of? And are where? |
Rods and cones In the retina |
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Optic disk is your ? It contains? |
Blond spot No photoreceptors
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Fovea has lots of ? |
Photoreceptors so it has a crisp accurate image |
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Your iris has the? |
Outer radial muscle Inner circular muscle |
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Your ciliary muscle is what kind of muscle? |
Smooth |
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Your ciliary muscle relaxes when looking? |
Far away and lens gets flat |
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Your ciliary muscle contracts when looking? |
Near and the lens gets rounded |
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Shades of gray/ fuzzy focus=? |
Rods |
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Color/crisp=? |
ComesComes |
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How do we know where sound is coming from? |
Sound hits one ear slightly before the other ear. |
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Cochlea has? |
Mechanoreceptors |
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If ossicles are stuffed what happens? |
You can't hear |
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Semicircular canals are important for? |
Equilibrium |
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Semicircular canals also have? Which has ?
What do they do? |
Mechanoreceptors which has little hairs that bend with the rotation of the head.
Detect Head Rotation |
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Cochlea has what for what? |
Hair cells for hearing |
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Vestibular apparatus is what? |
ear to shoulder, chin to neck movement or LINEAR MOVEMENTS NOT Rotation of the head |
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What nerve is in the olfactory bulb? |
olfactory nerve (cranial nerve 1) |
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The olfactory bulb is connected with the ? |
Limbic system which delas with emotions/memory |
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You adapt to ? which is why? |
smells which is why smokers cant smell the smoke on them |
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Neurons do what in the olfactory? |
Regenerate |
