BIOS 252 Exam 3
1. for perception to happen, the sensory signal must sensory versus perception
reach the
cerebrum
2. conscious or subconscious awareness in internal or sensation
external environment, "raw input"
3. conscious interpretation of sensations performed perception
mainly by cerebral cortex, "how our brain makes
sense of input"
4. the ability to no longer perceive sensations due to adaption
prolonged exposure
5. categorized based on distribution, location, and Sensory receptors/Nerve end-
type ings
6. pain, temperature changes, tickle, itch Free Nerve Endings
7. touch, pressure, vibration Encapsulated Nerve Endings
8. used to create special sensory reception Special Sensory Cells
9. sensations from outside the body exteroceptors
10. sensations from inside the body interoceptors
11. where your body is in space and time proprioceptors
12. stretch including touch, pressure, vibrations, Mechanoreceptors
stretch, proprioception
13. exteroceptors, interoceptors, proprioceptors Receptors based on location
14. Receptors based on type
, BIOS 252 Exam 3
Mechanoreceptors, osmoreceptors, thermorecep-
tors, chemoreceptors, photoreceptors, nocicep-
tors
15. osmolarity osmoreceptors
16. temperature thermoreceptors
17. chemicals chemoreceptors
18. light photoreceptors
19. pain nociciceptors
20. acute with sharp stabbing how is fast pain described?
21. chronic - dull achey how is slow pain described?
22. pain that is felt in a location other than where the referred pain
pain originates
23. combined are touch, pressure, vibration, itch, and tactile receptors
tickle
24. itch and tickle tactile free nerve endings feel?
25. temperature change and pain non-tactile free nerve endings
feel?
26. sense movement on skin by movement of hair root hair plexuses feel?
27. light touch, low-frequency vibration Meissner's corpuscle feel?
28. pressure merkel cells feel?
29. merkel cells
, BIOS 252 Exam 3
type 1 cutaneous mechanore-
ceptors
30. ruffini's corpuscle type ii cutaneous mecahnore-
ceptors
31. light and deep pressure ruffini's corpuscle feel?
32. baroreceptors what receptors feel deep pres-
sure?
33. Pacinian corpuscle lamellated corpuscles
34. vibration pacinian corpuscles feel?
35. combination of nerve endings giving surfaces tex- complex tactile sensations
tures
36. Somatic, visceral pressure, chemical, stretch, nau- what are the general senses?
sea, hunger, temperature
37. smell, taste, vision, hearing, equilibrium What are the special senses?
38. rods and cones of the retina called photoreceptors what are the special sensory
receptor cells in the eye?
39. fibrous tunic, vascular tunic, iris what are the layers of the eye?
40. retina; photoreceptors (rods and cones) What is the name of the most
inner layer of the eye? What
type of receptors are found
there?
41. Sclera and Cornea what are the layers of the fi-
brous tunic?
1. for perception to happen, the sensory signal must sensory versus perception
reach the
cerebrum
2. conscious or subconscious awareness in internal or sensation
external environment, "raw input"
3. conscious interpretation of sensations performed perception
mainly by cerebral cortex, "how our brain makes
sense of input"
4. the ability to no longer perceive sensations due to adaption
prolonged exposure
5. categorized based on distribution, location, and Sensory receptors/Nerve end-
type ings
6. pain, temperature changes, tickle, itch Free Nerve Endings
7. touch, pressure, vibration Encapsulated Nerve Endings
8. used to create special sensory reception Special Sensory Cells
9. sensations from outside the body exteroceptors
10. sensations from inside the body interoceptors
11. where your body is in space and time proprioceptors
12. stretch including touch, pressure, vibrations, Mechanoreceptors
stretch, proprioception
13. exteroceptors, interoceptors, proprioceptors Receptors based on location
14. Receptors based on type
, BIOS 252 Exam 3
Mechanoreceptors, osmoreceptors, thermorecep-
tors, chemoreceptors, photoreceptors, nocicep-
tors
15. osmolarity osmoreceptors
16. temperature thermoreceptors
17. chemicals chemoreceptors
18. light photoreceptors
19. pain nociciceptors
20. acute with sharp stabbing how is fast pain described?
21. chronic - dull achey how is slow pain described?
22. pain that is felt in a location other than where the referred pain
pain originates
23. combined are touch, pressure, vibration, itch, and tactile receptors
tickle
24. itch and tickle tactile free nerve endings feel?
25. temperature change and pain non-tactile free nerve endings
feel?
26. sense movement on skin by movement of hair root hair plexuses feel?
27. light touch, low-frequency vibration Meissner's corpuscle feel?
28. pressure merkel cells feel?
29. merkel cells
, BIOS 252 Exam 3
type 1 cutaneous mechanore-
ceptors
30. ruffini's corpuscle type ii cutaneous mecahnore-
ceptors
31. light and deep pressure ruffini's corpuscle feel?
32. baroreceptors what receptors feel deep pres-
sure?
33. Pacinian corpuscle lamellated corpuscles
34. vibration pacinian corpuscles feel?
35. combination of nerve endings giving surfaces tex- complex tactile sensations
tures
36. Somatic, visceral pressure, chemical, stretch, nau- what are the general senses?
sea, hunger, temperature
37. smell, taste, vision, hearing, equilibrium What are the special senses?
38. rods and cones of the retina called photoreceptors what are the special sensory
receptor cells in the eye?
39. fibrous tunic, vascular tunic, iris what are the layers of the eye?
40. retina; photoreceptors (rods and cones) What is the name of the most
inner layer of the eye? What
type of receptors are found
there?
41. Sclera and Cornea what are the layers of the fi-
brous tunic?
