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What is a decreased sensitivity that occurs when a stimulus is continuously applied to sensory receptors called?
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It all depends on the sensory receptors affected by continuous stimulus applied. It can cause complete damage to the receptors and or prevent them from receiving the correct signals.
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What kind of cell detects a stimulus?
Temperature - Skin Receptors.
What is a reduction in sensitivity in the presence of a constant stimulus?
Adaptation
Receptors provide information about the intensity of a stimulus through?
the frequency of their action potentials
Anything a organism responds to is a?
stimuli? yea that's what i thought but im not so sure...
How do animals respond to stimuli?
Tigers have very less info on Life Processes, I myself am doing a project on them. I also had to answer a question that had to do with response and stumuli. During the day time or midday when it is hot tigers tend to be lazy and sleep. During this time is also when they groom. Though when it becomes evening or sunset when it is cooler tigers go to hunt for food. The stimulus is change in light and tigers respond by doing a different activity, in this case hunting.
What is the decreased sensitivity to a continued stimulus called?
depends on the subject of the matter; one may adapt to the stimulus, or develop a tolerance if being compaired to drug use
What are the brain stimulus receptors?
Brain stimulus receptors are considered "selective transducers" by physiologists. The reason that they are referred to as this is that the receptors convert certain information by turning it to energy.
What is the receptors in your body?
It detects the stimulus
What kind of cell detects a stimulus?
Temperature - Skin Receptors.
Does the nerve cell give us sensitivity?
In part, yes. The nerve cell is what ensures the message of an external or internal stimulus gets to the brain so we are consiously aware of that stimulus. However, in order for a nerve cell to get the message, it must receive an input from a receptor. As such, the receptors at the end of a nerve cell are the most directly responsible for our sensitivity. Some examples of the receptors are: - nociceptors - mechanoreceptors (meissners corpuscles, etc.) - prorioreceptors (muscle spindles) - chemoreceptors (taste buds)
What are brains stimulus receptors called?
sensoria
What is a reduction in sensitivity in the presence of a constant stimulus?
Adaptation
Detect changes of internal or external stimulus?
sensory receptors
What do peripheral nervous system sensory receptors do?
Sensory receptors provide the connection between the stimulus such as heat, cold, and pain and the CNS.
Receptors provide information about the intensity of a stimulus through?
the frequency of their action potentials
What name is given to any factor that causes sensory receptors to begin to function?
A 'stimulus'.
What are cutaneous glands?
similar to sensory receptors in the body, they recognize a change in stimulus
