Ch 49: Sensory

Question 1

Another name for the sense of taste is…

Answer 1

gustatory

Question 2

What are the three categories of Normal Sensation.

Answer 2

1. Reception
2. Perception
3. Reaction

Question 3

Define “Reception”

Answer 3

Stimulation of a receptor such as light, touch, or sound

Question 4

Define “Perception”

Answer 4

Integration and interpretation of stimuli

Question 5

Define “Reaction”

Answer 5

Only the most important stimuli will elicit a reaction

Question 6

What are the 6 most common VISUAL sensory deficits?

Answer 6

1. Presbyopia
2. Cataract
3. Dry eyes
4. Glaucoma
5. Diabetic retinopathy
6. Macular degeneration

Question 7

What is presbyopia?

Answer 7

Can’t see close objects clearly

Question 8

What is a cataract?

Answer 8

Cloudy or opaque areas in part or all of the lens that interfere w/ passage of light through lens causing glare and blurred vision.

Question 9

What is glaucoma?

Answer 9

Abnormally high pressure in the eye that damages the optic nerve and causes decreased visual acuity, difficulty adapting to darkness, halo effects around lights and even blindness

Question 10

What is diabetic retinopathy?

Answer 10

Changes that occur in the blood vessels of the retinua resulting in decreased vision or vison loss due to hemorrhage and macular edema

Question 11

What are some signs of. macular degneration?

Answer 11

• bluring of reading matter
• distorion/loss of central vision
• distortion of vertical lines

Question 12

What are 2 hearing deficits?

Answer 12

1. Presbycusis - gradual rolling off of high freqs
2. Cerumen accumuation

Question 13

What is/describe Xerostomia.

Answer 13

• It is a taste deficit
• Decrease in salivary production leads to thicker mucus in mouth that inhibits taste and leads to appetite and nutritional problems

Question 14

What is peripheral neuropathy?

Answer 14

numbness and tingling of the affected area (in extremities) and stumbling gate

Question 15

Define Sensory Deficit

Answer 15

• Deficit in the normal function of sensory reception and perception
• The effected sense just doesn’t function properly

Question 16

Define Sensory Deprivation

Answer 16

• Inadequate quality or quantity of stimulation
• The environmental stimulous is reduced/restricted

Question 17

Define Sensory Overload

Give two examples

Answer 17

• Reception of multiple sensory stimuli and cannot disregard or ignore some stimuli
• Ex
  
  • Crowd noise
  • Sudden introduction to a light environment from dark

Question 18

What is Aphasia?

Answer 18

• An impairment of the ability to speak, interpret or understand language

Question 19

Describe Expressive Aphasia

Answer 19

• Motor type of aphasia
• You can understand what’s said, but can’t express in words/writing

Question 20

Describe Receptive Aphasia

Answer 20

• Sensory aphasia
• Can’t understand, but can say words, but they won’t make sense