Assignment Psychology
Assignment psychology: Sensory process, the skin senses.
Submitted to: Professor Kamran
By: Fizza khan
Class: BB1A
Roll no: 0008
Sensory process: The skin senses
Skin senses are sensory systems for processing touch, warmth, cold, texture, and pain. They begin with external contact but then are transformed after being picked up by the nerve endings in the skin. The sensitivity is greatest on people's faces, tongues, and hands, allowing for effective eating, speaking, and grasping through the precise sensory feedback that is given in these areas. When you are walking in a store and people are walking by you, you feel the breeze of them passing by and get a cold chill. Touching a hot stove and feeling the heat against the skin on your hand. Feeling the pain of a sharp object on your skin. Walking into a big freezer, full of every ice cream you could think of, your body all around feels the coldness of the freezer.
Skin senses includes following parts
1. cutaneous senses or senses of touch
2. somato sense
3. somatic sensory system
cutaneous senses or senses of touch:- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us". Sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body. The skin contains receptors that respond to touch, pressure, and temperature. The relationships between receptors and the cutaneous sensations are not completely understood. Meissner's corpuscles are sensitive to touch and Pacinian corpuscles to deep pressure. Ruffini endings transmit information about warmth and Krause's bulbs about cold. Information is transmitted from the receptors tonerve fibers that are routed through the spinal cord to the brainstem. From there they are transmitted to an area of cortex in the parietal lobe. Skin senses also undergo various kinds of sensory adaptation. For example, a hot tub can be initially so hot that it is
Submitted to: Professor Kamran
By: Fizza khan
Class: BB1A
Roll no: 0008
Sensory process: The skin senses
Skin senses are sensory systems for processing touch, warmth, cold, texture, and pain. They begin with external contact but then are transformed after being picked up by the nerve endings in the skin. The sensitivity is greatest on people's faces, tongues, and hands, allowing for effective eating, speaking, and grasping through the precise sensory feedback that is given in these areas. When you are walking in a store and people are walking by you, you feel the breeze of them passing by and get a cold chill. Touching a hot stove and feeling the heat against the skin on your hand. Feeling the pain of a sharp object on your skin. Walking into a big freezer, full of every ice cream you could think of, your body all around feels the coldness of the freezer.
Skin senses includes following parts
1. cutaneous senses or senses of touch
2. somato sense
3. somatic sensory system
cutaneous senses or senses of touch:- the faculty by which external objects or forces are perceived through contact with the body (especially the hands); "only sight and touch enable us to locate objects in the space around us". Sensitivity to stimuli originating outside of the body. The skin contains receptors that respond to touch, pressure, and temperature. The relationships between receptors and the cutaneous sensations are not completely understood. Meissner's corpuscles are sensitive to touch and Pacinian corpuscles to deep pressure. Ruffini endings transmit information about warmth and Krause's bulbs about cold. Information is transmitted from the receptors tonerve fibers that are routed through the spinal cord to the brainstem. From there they are transmitted to an area of cortex in the parietal lobe. Skin senses also undergo various kinds of sensory adaptation. For example, a hot tub can be initially so hot that it is