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What are the four types of receptors? What kind of stimulus does each one respond to?

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Step-by-step explanation:

Broadly, sensory receptors respond to one of four primary stimuli:

• Chemicals (chemoreceptors)

• Temperature (thermoreceptors)

• Pressure (mechanoreceptors)

• Light (photoreceptors)

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