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What is sensation ??
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The body's ability to detect changes in the internal and external enviroments.
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What is perception?
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The conscious interpretation of stimuli.
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What are sensory receptors?
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Structures specialized to respond to changes in the enviroment.
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How are classifications of receptors divided?
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By location and by stimulus detected.
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What are exteroceptors?
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Sensitive to stimuli on the outside of the body.
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What are exteroceptors sensitive to?
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Touch, pressure, pain, and temperature receptors in the skin and the special sense organs (e.g., eyes, ears, etc.)
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What are interoreceptors (visceroreceptors)?
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Responds to stimuli occuring on the inside of the body in the organs and blood vessels.
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What do interoreceptors detect?
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Detects chemical changes,stretch, pain and temperature.
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What are proprioceptors?
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Propriorecepotors are a type of interoreptors that respond to internal stimuli caused by movement
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Where are propriorecptors found?
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Found in the muscles, tendons, ligaments, and connective tissue coverings of the muscles and bones. Helps the brain know the location of the body parts
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Chemoreceptors
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Responds to chemicals in solution
*Taste, smell and blood chemicals
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Nociceptors
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Pain receptors
*responds to potentially damaging stimuli
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Thermoreceptors
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Responds to changes in temperature
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Mechanoreceptors
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Detects touch, pressure, vibrations and stretch
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Photoreceptors
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Responds to light energy
*Mainly found in eyes
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