Physical Education A-Level
Receptors
What Receptors means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Receptors
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Reference: AQA
Sensory structures that detect a stimulus and convert it into electrical impulses travelling along sensory neurones towards the central nervous system.
Topics that use Receptors
- General information processing model, to include: (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Central executive
- Central processing and memory
- Decision making
- Extrinsic feedback
- Feedback
- Information overload
- Information processing
- Input
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