Name: ____________________________________

Notes: The Senses

Sensory Receptors

Somatic Senses

Special Senses

Skin Receptors

1. _________________________________________ Detects __________________________________________________

2. _________________________________________ Detects __________________________________________________

3. _________________________________________ Detects __________________________________________________

4. _________________________________________ Detects __________________________________________________

5. _________________________________________ Detects __________________________________________________

Sensations

Sensation _____________________________________________________________________

Projection _____________________________________________________________________ Example:

Sensory Adaptation ____________________________________________________________________________________

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Somatic Senses

1. Free Nerve Ending ______________________________________________

2. Meissner’s Corpuscles ______________________________________________

3. Pacinian Corpuscles ______________________________________________

Label the following three receptors in our skin: Free Nerve Endings, Meissner’s Corpuscle and Pacinian Corpuscle

Sense of Pain

Visceral Pain __________________________________________________________________

Referred Pain __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________

Acute Pain ___________________________________________________________________

Chronic Pain ___________________________________________________________________

What is the difference between Acute and Dull Pain?

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Regulation of Pain

Inhibitors of Pain (____________________________ brain chemicals can be mimicked by drugs such as _____________________)

_________________________________________ _________________________________________

How is the Universal Pain Assessment Tool used by Health Care Providers?

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The Rising Tide of Prescription Abuse

2.6 _______________________ people nationwide now regularly use pain pills for recreational purposes. Taken in ________ doses, painkillers produce feelings of ______________________ with no ______________________.

Where do most people obtain prescription drugs from?

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What regulations can be imposed to stop prescription drug abuse?

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Special Senses

_______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________

Sense of Smell (Olfactory)

Odor ______________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________ Example:

Receptor Cell ____________________________________________________________________________________

Olfactory Bulb ____________________________________________________________________________________

Olfactory Tract ____________________________________________________________________________________

How do we smell things?

1. __________________ attaches to _______________________________ in the nose.2. ________________________________ sends info to _________________________.3. ________________________________ delivers info to ___________________________.4. The ______________________ sends into to __________________ via Nerve Pathway. (Impulses -

__________________________________)

Look at the picture and explain in your OWN words how smell works …..

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Why do smells trigger memories?

Smell is processed in the ________________________________ as well as the ________________________________________.

The Hippocampus stores all our ____________________________________________. Therefore memories that are saved in combination with a ________________________ smell can be

__________________________________ when we encounter that smell again. Examples:

Video: How do we smell? Notes

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