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What are exterorexeptos

Receptors That detect external stimuli
What are internoreceptors ?

Receptors that detect internal stimuli
What does a mechanoreceptor recognize?

Mechanical disturbances (pressure)
What is an example of a mechanoreceptor in the skin ?

Pacinian corpuscle
What is an example of a mechanoreceptor in the ear ?

Auditory hair cell
What does a chemoreceptors recognize?

Chemicals
What are two types of chemoreceptors?
- Olfactory receptors
- Gustatory receptors
What do nociceptors recognize ?

Pain
What do thermoreceptors recognize?

Temperature
What do electromagnetic receptors recognize?

Electromagnetic waves
What are the only electromagnetic receptors in the human body ?
- Rods
- Cones
What properties need to be communicated to the CNS ?
- Location
- Intensity
- Mode
- Duration
What determines intensity of a signal ?

Frequency of axn potential
What receptors fire as long as the stimulus is present ?

Tonic receptors
What receptor only fires when the stimulus starts ?

Phasic receptors
What are proprioceptors ?

Receptors that make you aware of your body position
What are the components of the outer ear ?
- Auricle
- External auditory canal
What are the components of the middle ear ?
- Tympanic membrane
- Ossicles
What are the components of the ossicles ?
- Malleus (Hammer)
- Incus (Anvil)
- Stapes (Stirrup)
What are the components of the inner ear ?
- Cochlea
- Semicircular canals
- Utricle
- Saccule
What do the 3 small bones in the middle ear do?

Amplify sound vibrations
What generates vibrations

Tympanic membrane
Name the fluid in the cochlea
- Perilymph
- Endolymph
Vibration of endolymph causes vibration of what ?

Basilar membrane
What covers the basilar membrane?

Hair cells
What factor of the sound wave determines pitch ?

Frequency
What factor of the wave determines loudness?

Amplitude
Where in the brain is the auditory complex ?

Temporal lobes
What part of the eye does light enter ?

Cornea
What happens to light as it passes through the cornea ?

It is refracted
What is the white of the eye ?

The sclera
What is the color part of the eye ?

Iris
What changes the curvature of the lens ?

Ciliary muscle
What cells do rods & cones synapse with ?

Bipolar cells
What do bipolar cells synapse with ?

Ganglion Cells
What cells axons make up the optic nerve ?

Ganglion cell axons
Name the part of the retina where the ganglion axons become optic nerve.

Optic disk
What is the optic disk ALso known as ?

Blind spot
What is the structure in the center of the macula ?

The fovea centralis
What is special about the fovea centralis ?

Only cones in this area
What state are rods & cone cells in when it’s dark ?

Depolarized
What happens to rods & cones when light is added ?

The hyperpolarize
Which photoreceptor is responsible for noticing light ?

Rods
What photoreceptors are responsible for recognizing color?

Cones
What is the only binocular clue ?

Depth perception
What are the monocular cues ?
- Relative size
- Interposition
- Relative clarity
- Texture gradient
- Relative height
- Relative motion
- Light and shadow
- Linear perspective

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