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(1) What is the function of a sensory receptor?
 * Sensory receptors** are dendrites that are specialized to detect certain types of stimuli.

(2) What is a exteroceptor? EXAMPLES TOO. An **exteroceptor** is a sensory receptor that detect stimuli from outside the body like taste, smell, vision, hearing, and equilibrium.

(3) What is an interoceptor? EXAMPLES TOO. An **interoceptor** receives stimuli from inside the body like pressoreceptors respond to changes in blood pressure.

(4) What is a chemoreceptor? EXAMPLES TOO. A **chempreceptor** responds to chemicals in your immediate surroundings.

(5) What is a pain receptor? EXAMPLES TOO. A **pain receptor** are a type of chemoreceptor that respond to chemicals released by damaged tissue. For example, without the pain of appendicitis, we might never seek the medical help we need to avoid when the appendix ruptures.

(6) What is a photoreceptor? EXAMPLES TOO. A **photoreceptor** respond to light energy, which provides us vision to see things.

(7) What is a mechanoreceptor? EXAMPLES TOO. A **mechanoreceptor** is stimulated by mechanical forces, which results in pressure. For example, when we hear, airborne sound waves are converted into fluidborne pressue waves that can be detected by mechanoreceptors in the inner ear.

(8 What is a thermoreceptor? EXAMPLES TOO. A **thermoreceptors** detects changes in temperatures.The heat from the sun activate thermoreceptors in our skin.

(9) Explain sensation.
 * Sensation** is the conscious awareness of a stimulus due to nerve impulses sent to the brain from a sensory receptor by the way of sensory neurons.

(10) What is sensory adaptation?
 * Sensory adaptation** is the phenomenon of a sensation becoming less noticeable oce it has been recognized by a constant repetition of the stimulus.