Download Study Guide Chapter 10 in Fox

Study Guide Chapter 10 in Fox
Characteristics of Sensory Receptors
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Understand the difference between “sensory receptors” and “ligand receptors”
Most sensory receptors are either ______________ or _______________
These receptors receive some form of ___________ and convert it into action potentials.
Because they convert energy from one form to another, receptors are called ____________
Different forms of sensations are often called_____________
For sensory information arriving via the spinal cord, the sensory neurons are located in the
_________
What shape do these neurons have?
Functionally, sensory neurons can be grouped in one of 2 possible ways, these are
_____&________
What is the difference between phasic and tonic receptors? What kind are pain receptors?
What is a neural transmitter found in pain pathways?
What does the term ‘sensory adaptation’ mean?
What does the “Law of Specific nerve Energies” mean? Give an example
You say you are “cold” What is meant by that in the world of physics?
When stimulated, sensory endings produce “local, graded, membrane depolarizations called
_____________.
How do sensory receptors “code for stimulus intensity”?
What is “referred pain”?
What is a “receptive field”? What is “2-point discrimination”?
What places on our body have the largest 2-pt touch threshold?
Be able to describe the “Phantom limb” phenomenon
What is “lateral inhibition”?
What are “chemoreceptors”?
Your instructor told you that “taste” may be mostly due to _______________.