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UNIT THREE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sensory Physiology Part 1<\/p>\n

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  1. Define key terms such as sensation, generator potential, receptor potential, stimulus transduction and projection, adaptation, and convergence.<\/li>\n
  2. Identify factors that influence the size of a receptor potential.<\/li>\n
  3. Define receptive field and its measurement with two point discrimination.<\/li>\n
  4. Define lateral inhibition as it pertains to sensory physiology.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sensory Physiology Part 2<\/p>\n

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    1. Determine light properties in terms of electromagnetic waves, focal point, and refraction.<\/li>\n
    2. Identify different eye arrangements in different animals.<\/li>\n
    3. Identify the receptors involved in vision and the following features of the eye and retina: \u00a0and the following eye features: cornea, lens, iris, pupil, retina, optic nerve, macula lutea, fovea centralis, pigmented layer, and optic disk.<\/li>\n
    4. Distinguish the effect of sympathetic vs. parasympathetic stimulation on the size of the pupil.<\/li>\n
    5. Identify the two main components of rhodopsin and the vitamin needed for its synthesis.<\/li>\n
    6. Determine the resting membrane potential in the rod when it\u2019s dark.<\/li>\n
    7. Identify the molecular changes in rhodopsin, bipolar cells, and ganglion cells when exposed to light.<\/li>\n
    8. Distinguish the level of convergence and visual acuity when following the rod pathway and the cone pathway.<\/li>\n
    9. Define bleaching of the rods.<\/li>\n
    10. Identify the characteristics of rods and cones, including their locations on the retina, sensitivity to light, and numbers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Sensory Physiology Part 3<\/p>\n

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      1. Define key terms such as mechanoreception, soundwave, otolith, and statocyst.<\/li>\n
      2. Determine how mechanoreceptors lead to an action potential in a sensory neuron.<\/li>\n
      3. Distinguish the parts of the hair receptor, including the kinocilium and stereocilia.<\/li>\n
      4. Determine the sound wave size and frequencies for different pitches and volumes of sound.<\/li>\n
      5. Define these structures of hearing: external ear, middle ear, inner ear, ear canal, tympanic membrane, auditory tube, malleus, incus, stapes, oval window, round window, scala tympani, scala vestibuli, basilar membrane, spiral organ (= organ of Corti), cochlea and cochlear duct.<\/li>\n
      6. Distinguish perilymph from endolymph.<\/li>\n
      7. Determine the parts of the cochlear duct that respond to differing sound wave frequencies, based on the length of the hair cells.<\/li>\n
      8. Define these structures of equilibrium: vestibule, utricle, saccule, semicircular canal, semicircular duct.<\/li>\n
      9. Identify the receptors for head position, linear acceleration and deceleration, and rotational acceleration and deceleration.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Circulation Part 1: Heart<\/p>\n

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        1. Identify similarities and differences between skeletal and cardiac muscle.<\/li>\n
        2. Define intercalated disk=disc.<\/li>\n
        3. Identify the location and role of the SA node.<\/li>\n
        4. Define pacemaker potential and cardiac action potential.<\/li>\n
        5. Identify the pathway of electrical conduction throughout the heart.<\/li>\n
        6. Identify functions of circulatory systems.<\/li>\n
        7. Distinguish an open from a closed circulatory pathway.<\/li>\n
        8. Identify the four chambers of the bird and mammal heart.<\/li>\n
        9. Identify the waves of a typical Lead II electrocardiogram.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Circulation Part 2 Heart Muscle Pumping<\/p>\n

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          1. Identify the blood flow pathway and the oxygenation status in each of its structures (the vena cava, heart chambers and valves, lungs, and aorta).<\/li>\n
          2. Name the two general phases of the cardiac cycle.<\/li>\n
          3. Identify the origin of the lub-dupp heart sounds.<\/li>\n
          4. Define stroke volume (as it relates to end diastolic volume and end systolic volume) and cardiac output (as it relates to stroke volume and heart rate).<\/li>\n
          5. Identify the changes in stroke volume according to the Frank-Starling law.<\/li>\n
          6. Determine the change in cardiac output as a result of parasympathetic and sympathetic stimulation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Circulation Part 3 Flow and Blood Vessel Type<\/p>\n

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            1. Define flow, pressure, and resistance.<\/li>\n
            2. Identify how factors such as viscosity, vessel length, and vessel radius affect flow, pressure, and resistance.<\/li>\n
            3. Determine the relative pressure value in the main types of blood vessels.<\/li>\n
            4. Distinguish between laminar and turbulent flow.<\/li>\n
            5. Identify the blood vessel with the slowest blood velocity.<\/li>\n
            6. Identify the three main types of blood vessels.<\/li>\n
            7. Identify the blood vessel associated with high resistance capability, the primary blood reservoir, site of diffusion, highest and lowest pressures, valves, elastic recoil, high capacitance (=compliance).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Circulation Part 4 Arterioles, Capillaries, Veins and Regulation of Arterial Blood Pressure<\/p>\n

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              1. Define key terms such as vasoconstriction, vasodilation, lymph vessel, vein, venule, and ADH.<\/li>\n
              2. Determine the local factors that affect arteriole smooth muscle.<\/li>\n
              3. Identify the neurogenic and hormonal factors resulting in vasoconstriction or vasodilation.<\/li>\n
              4. Determine the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone pathway’s relationship to blood vessel diameter.<\/li>\n
              5. Identify the major types of capillaries.<\/li>\n
              6. Determine the mechanisms of molecule movement across the capillary wall.<\/li>\n
              7. Determine how veins can have decent blood flow in spite of very low pressures.<\/li>\n
              8. Identify the relationship of mean arterial pressure, cardiac output, and total peripheral resistance.<\/li>\n
              9. Determine how blood volume relates to blood pressure.<\/li>\n
              10. Define the baroreceptor reflex and determine how it relates to the effects of gravity on the circulatory system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                Here is a link to the Objectives Answers for Unit 3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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