EDSP 161 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Golgi Tendon Organ, Cranial Nerves, Posterior Column

• School: SJSU
• Department: Education - Communicative Disorders and Sciences, Department of
• Course: EDSP 161
• Professor: Anita Schaak

Document Summary

5 senses - sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste function of 5 senses - monitors external environment. brings info towards cns, receptors through out body. How 5 senses travel - afferent system, stimuli travel along nerves, spinal and cranial nerves are conduit from periphery to cns, once in cns travels through tracts up cns. General somatic sensation - mediated through spinal cord and spinal nerves. Sensation to head and vocal mechanism - mediated through cranial nerves types of somatic sensation - touch, pressure, position sense, pain, thermal sensation. Sherringtons classification of senses - exteroceptors, proprioceptors, interoceptors. Interoceptors - sensation fron internal organs viscera of body. Propioceptors - deep sensations in muscles, joints, and inner ear. Nocireceptors (exteroreceptor) - pain, internal and external environments. How are senses classified - sheringtons, type of sensory info, type of energy. Awareness of body and space, provides cns info located in muscles, tendons, joints, belly. Activated in initiation or ceasing of movement strain on joint.