EXAM 1 Flashcards
What is an emergency response
Responding to unexpected hazardous situations
What is tactile
sense of touch
Insenate
no feeling
Paresthesia
tingling numbness
Proprioception
Interpreting stimuli from tendons, muscles, joints, and inner ear to give info about the position of one body part is in relation to another body part.
Ataxia
poor muscle control that causes clumsy involuntary movements
Vestibular
Interpreting stimuli from the inner ear regarding head position and movement
What is BPPV?
crystals in the inner ear
what is Labyrinthitis?
from inner ear infection
what is Vestibular neuritis
pain, balance issues, ringing
what is Meniere Disease
roaring, ringing, buzzing etc
Gustatory
sensory
Olfactory
smells/odours
Perceptual processing
organizing sensory input into meaningful patterns
Stereognosis
Identifying objects through sense of touch without the use of vision
Kinesthesia
Identifying the excretion and direction of movement
Akinesia
No movement
Dyskinesia
Difficulty with movement
Bradykinesia
slow movement
Diadochokinesia
ability to perform rapidly alternating movements
Dysdiadochokinesia
uncoordinated rapid movements
Adiadiadochokinesia
absent
Pain response
interpreting noxious stimuli
Body Scheme Awareness
Internal awareness of the relationship of the body parts to each other
Left-Right discrimination
the ability to differentiate one side to the other
lateralization
Child chooses dominant side
Form constancy
Recognizing forms and objects as the same in various environments, positions and sizes
Position in space
Determining the spacial relationships of forms and objects in relation to oneself and other forms and objects
Visual closure
Identifying objects from incomplete presentations to determine what the complete image would look like
Figure ground
The ability to differentiate foreground objects from the background.
Depth perception
Determining the distance between self and objects, and changes in angles and surfaces.
Spatial relationships
Determining the position of objects relative to each other.
Rotate objects in space
Topographical orientation
Determining the location of objects or a destination and the route to the location
Reflex
an involuntary muscle response to sensory input, usually instantaneous. Involves the reflex arc.
Righting Reflexes
corrects the body when it is taken out of its upright position
Equilibrium Responses
Reflexes that allow the body to recover balance