What are some emotional or psychological responses to chronic stress?

Sensory adaptation of cutaneous temperature receptors some types of sensory receptors, like pain receptors, will continue to transduce pain until the stimulus is removed. other sensory receptors may respond with an initial burst in production of action potentials, but will “adapt” and over time action potentials will cease. sensory adaptation occurs, for example, with olfactory receptors for smell. procedure have the subject place one hand in an ice bath while simultaneously placing the other hand in a warm water bath (@40oc). the subject should keep their hands in the designated baths for two minutes. after two minutes, remove both hands and place both hands in a room temperature water bath. record your observations review questions 1. describe how each hand felt after taking them out of the designated water baths and placing them into the room temperature water bath. 2. define sensory adaptation and relate it to what happened to the temperature receptors in the subject’s hands. 3. list and describe sensory receptors that adapt, and sensory receptors that do not.

Its totally for health > : ) random questions- free points. 1. grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4. 2. stretch your left arm out as far as you can, what can you touch? 3. before you started this survey, what were you doing? 4. what is the last thing you watched on tv? 5. without looking, guess what time it is 6. now look at the clock. what is the actual time? 7. with the exception of the computer, what can you hear? 8. when did you last step outside? what were you doing? 9. did you dream last night? 10. do you remember your dreams? 11. when did you last laugh? 12. do you remember why / at what? 13. what is on the walls of the room you are in? 14. seen anything weird lately? 15. what do you think of this quiz? 16. what is the last film you saw? 17. if you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? 18. if you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy? 19. tell me something about you that most people don't know. 20. if you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?

1. controls how much sugar is in the blood pancreas 2. controls the other glands pituitary gland 3. manufactured by the brain to relieve pain thyroid 4. gland that regulates the body's energy levels endorphins