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| 13.1 Sensory Receptors and Sensations | 13.1 Sensory Receptors and Sensations | 13.1 Sensory Receptors and Sensations |
- Sensory receptors detect certain types of external or internal stimuli.
- Sensation occurs when sensory receptors send nerve impulses to the brain.
| - What is the function of a sensory receptor?
Answer - What is the difference between sensation and perception?
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| 13.2 Proprioceptors and Cutaneous Receptors | 13.2 Proprioceptors and Cutaneous Receptors | 13.2 Proprioceptors and Cutaneous Receptors |
- Proprioceptors in muscles and joints help the body maintain balance and posture.
- Cutaneous receptors in the skin are sensitive to touch, pressure, pain, and temperature (warmth and cold).
| - What is the function of proprioceptors?
Answer - What are the functions of cutaneous receptors in the skin?
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| 13.3 Senses of Taste and Smell | 13.3 Senses of Taste and Smell | 13.3 Senses of Taste and Smell |
- Taste cells within taste buds in the mouth are sensitive to molecules that result in bitter, sour, salty, or sweet tastes.
- Olfactory cells within the olfactory epithelium are sensitive to molecules that result in a sense of smell.
| - Taste cells are what type of sensory receptor? What are the four types of taste that result from stimulating these receptors?
Answer - What are the receptors responsible for smell called, and where are they located?
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| 13.4 Sense of Vision | 13.4 Sense of Vision | 13.4 Sense of Vision |
- The photoreceptors for sight contain visual pigments, which detect light rays.
- A great deal of integration occurs in the retina of the eye before nerve impulses are sent to the brain.
| - What parts of the eye assist in focusing an image on the retina?
Answer - What are the two types of photoreceptors?
Answer - Once the photoreceptors initiate a visual signal, what other cells in the eye integrate the signal and pass it on to the cerebellum?
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| 13.5 Sense of Hearing | 13.5 Sense of Hearing | 13.5 Sense of Hearing |
- The mechanoreceptors for hearing are hair cells in the cochlea of the inner ear that detect pressure waves.
| - What parts in the ear assist in amplifying sound waves?
Answer - What receptors allow us to hear? Where are these receptors located? How do they function?
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| 13.6 Sense of Equilibrium | 13.6 Sense of Equilibrium | 13.6 Sense of Equilibrium |
- Hair cells in the semicircular canals of the inner ear are responsible for rotational equilibrium.
- Hair cells in the vestibule of the inner ear are responsible for gravitational equilibrium.
| - Where are the receptors that detect rotation located? How do they function?
Answer - Where are the receptors that detect gravity located? How do they function?
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