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chemicals stimulate thousands of receptors in mouth, located on the tongue cheek throat and roof
gustation
receptor cells inside taste buds (500-10000)
papillae
main tastes
salty sour sweet bitter
attractivness of food effected by texture color and temp
mothfeel
after age __ taste buds decrease
40
sense of smell
olfacation
process of smell
1
2
3
4
5
1.molecules draw to nose
2.settle into mocous membrane at the top of each nostril
3.absorbed by receptors
4.cells linked to olfactory bulb send msges to brain
5.through amygdala-hypocampus
who has the worst sense of smell?
smokers
humans have about ____ yards of skin
2 square
basic senses of skin
touch
warmth
cold
pain
senses are felt by ___ in skin
nerve endings
some pain messages have a higer priority and must get through the gate in the spinal cord
gate control theory (ronald mezlack and patrick wall)
amputees fell pain in the removed limn
phantom pain
refutes the gate control theory
phantom pain
the sense of body position and movement
kinesthesis
eqilibrium,, related to inner ear
vestibular
visual cliff experiment
gibson and walk
6 months have ability
without certain experiences during early life the cells in the nervous sytem deteriorate and perception is impared
critical period
people from noncarpentered cultures arnet fooled by:
muller lyer vision
arist that used percepter
M.C esher
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