CHAPTER SENSESSS

Blank - Ability to perceive stimuli

• consciousness
• perception

• sensation
• sense

Blank - Conscious awareness of stimuli received by sensory neurons

• perception
• cognition
• sensation
• intuition

Blank - Sensory nerve endings that respond to stimuli by developing action

potentials

• sensory synapses

• sensory transmitters

• sensory neurons

• sensory receptors

Receptors over large part of body that sense touch, pressure, pain, temperature, and

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Somatic senses provide information about body and environment

Visceral senses provide information about internal organs

• visceral senses
• olfactory senses
• general senses

• somatic senses

Blank over large part of body that sense touch, pressure, pain, temperature, and

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• nerve

• receptors

• sensation

• stimulus

Blank senses provide information about body and environment

• visceral senses

• cognitive senses

• perceptive senses

• somatic senses

Blank senses provide information about internal organs

• interoceptive senses
• exteroceptive senses
• olfactory senses
• visceral senses

Smell, taste, sight, hearing, and balance

• Special senses

• Olfactory senses

• Somatic senses

• Visceral senses

Types of Receptors:

• Detect movement

• Example, touch, pressure, vibration

• Mechanoreceptors

• Chemoreceptors

• Photoreceptors

• Thermoreceptors

Types of Receptors:

• Detect chemicals

• Examples, odors and taste

• Mechanoreceptors

• Detect sounds
• Thermoreceptors

• Chemoreceptors