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❖ Mechanoreceptors located in the muscles, tendons, & joints
❖ As their location and name imply, these receptors tell us about the position and movement of our limbs (e.g., Muscle Spindle) |
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❖ Also located in the skin, but responsive to changes in the temperature of the surrounding skin
❖ Warmth and cold fibers constantly regulate the temperature of the body, keeping it within the range of 86-96 F |
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| Attributes of Touch Receptors |
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1. Type of Stimulation (temp, pain, vib)
2. Size of Receptive Fields (sml/lrg)
3. Rate of Adaptation (fast/slow) |
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| ❖ Pain receptors, responsive to aversive stimulation, both mechanical and thermal |
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1. Nociceptive -- impending or ongoing damage to the body’s tissue
2. Inflammatory -- heightened painful experience (hyperalgesia) due to previous damage to the site
3. Neuropathic -- dysfunction of the nervous system, can arise without actual tissue trauma |
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| 2 Sensation Pathways to the Brain (via SC) |
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❖ The slow pathway (spinothalmic) carries thermoreceptor & nociceptor information
❖ The quick pathway (DCML) carries tactile & proprioceptive information |
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is somatotopically organized in
correspondence to the skin (also called homunculus) |
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| active, info seeking perception via skin, muscles, joints, ... |
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| Allows us to ID what we're touching. Material properties and countours are impt. during haptic perception. |
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| Locating an object during haptic perception. It's necessary to locate the object before you can perceive it. |
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| min distance at which two stimuli are perceptible as separate. |
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| People are good at remembering objects even with a week delay. |
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Conscious Perception and Action have little to do with each other.
BUT Perception determines Action and
Action influences Perception |
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Propositional Representational
Analog Representation |
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Usually R parietal lobe damage.
Affects L visual field. |
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| WThe inability to percieve a stimulus in the presence of another stimulus. |
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Failure to detect a change in a stimulus because you are attending to the wrong thing.
It can be good bc it allows you to only notice changes in impt things. |
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| Given a stem, with priming you will say the indicated word = unconcious processing |
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| How much you attend is dependent on time, not space. (The more time you have to process separate targets, the easier it is to remember/attend to them.) |
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