Module 2: Lesson 3: Additional Areas of Perception Dysfunction

Question 1

What is the term used to describe below:

Impairs an individuals ability to recognize and identify familiar objects and people

Answer 1

Perceptual dysfunction

Question 2

Name the type of body schema perception disorders

Answer 2

Unilateral neglect

Question 3

Name the types of visual perception disorders

Answer 3

• Agnosia
• Color agnosia
• Color anomia
• Metamorphopsia
• Prosopagnosia
• Simultanagnosia

Question 4

Name the types of visual spatial perception

Answer 4

• Figure ground discrimination
• Form constancy
• Positions in space
• R and L discrimination
• Stereopsis

Question 5

Name the types of tactile perception

Answer 5

• Stereognosis
• Graphesthesia

Question 6

What is described below:

A distorted sense of ones body shape, position or capacity

Answer 6

Autopagnosia

Question 7

How do you test for autopagnosia?

Answer 7

Ask the patient to draw a human figure and point to body parts on command

Question 8

The assessment described below is looking at what?

Have the patient draw a human figure and point to body parts on command

Answer 8

Autopagnosia

Question 9

What are the interventions for autopagnosia?

Answer 9

• Remediation: Focus on providing the client with opportunities to reinforce body knowledge through tactile and proprioceptive stimulation
• CIMT can be used if the client had difficulty initiating the use of the effected limb

Question 10

What is color anomia?

Answer 10

Inability to name the color of the objects

Question 11

What term is described below:

Inability to name the color of the objects

Answer 11

Color anomia

Question 12

What is metamorphopsia?

Answer 12

Visual distortion of objects such as physical properties of size and weight assessment

Question 13

What term is described below:

Visual distortion of objects such as physical properties of size and weight assessment

Answer 13

Metamorphopsia

Question 14

What is propsopagnosia?

Answer 14

Inability to recognize and identify familiar faces

Question 15

Define the term described below:

Inability to recognize and identify familiar faces

Answer 15

Prosopagnosia

Question 16

What is simultanagnosia?

Answer 16

• Inability to recognize and interpret visual arrays as a whole
• Able to identify individual components of visual scene
• Unable to recognize and interpret the gestalt of the scene

Question 17

Describe the perceptual dysfunction listed below:

• Inability to recognize and interpret visual arrays as a whole
• Able to identify individual components of a visual scene
• Unable to recognize and interpret the gestalt of the scene

Answer 17

Simultanagnosia

Question 18

What is visual spatial perception?

Answer 18

Capacity to appreciate the spatial arrangement of one’s body objects in relationship to oneself and relationships between objects in space.

Question 19

What term is used to describe below:

Capacity to appreciate the spatial arrangement of ones body objects in relationship to oneself and relationships between objects in space.

Answer 19

Visual spatial perception

Question 20

What is form constancy?

Answer 20

Recognition of various forms, shapes, and objects regardless of the position location or size

Question 21

What term is described below:

Recognition of various, forms, shapes, and objects regardless of the position location or size

Answer 21

Form constancy

Question 22

What is the ability to perceive depth in relation to the self or in relation to various objects in the environment?

Answer 22

Stereopsis

Question 23

What is Stereopsis?

Answer 23

Ability to percieve depth in relation to the self or in relation to various objects in the environment.

Question 24

What is the ability to identify common objects and geometric shapes through tactile perception without the aid of vision?

Answer 24

Stereognosis

Question 25

What is stereognosis?

Answer 25

Ability to identify common objects and geometric shapes through tactile perception without the aid of vision

Question 26

What is graphesthesia?

Answer 26

Ability to recognize numbers, letters or forms written on the skin

Question 27

What term is described below? Ability to recognize numbers, letters or forms written on the skin

Answer 27

Graphesthesia

Question 28

What are some established causes of Major NCD?

Answer 28

- Frontotemporal lobar degeneration - Lewy body disease - Vascular disease - TBI - Substance or medicaiton use - HIV - Prion disease - Parkinsons - Huntingtons

Question 29

There is strong evidence for this type of cognitive interventions

Answer 29

- Errorless learning: Repetitive training in the correct performance of a cognitive task, use of error reduction strategies - Prompting strategies to improve task completion during occupational performance - Cognitive stimulation to improve social participation

Question 30

There is mixed evidence for these intervention methods for cognition

Answer 30

- Cognitive training (practice of specific cognitive tasks) - Cognitive rehablitation strategies to improve occupational performance

Question 31

There is limited evidence for this cognitive intervention strategy

Answer 31

Cognitive stimulation to maintain or improve ADL performance

Question 32

Name some outcome cognitive related outcome measures that are used to target work with individuals with major NCD

Answer 32

- Performance assessment of self care skills - Caregiver assessment of function and upset - Quality of life Alzheimers disease scale - ACLS - AMPS - CPT - EFPT

Question 33

The follow describe normal cognitive aging or major NCD? - Independence in ADLs is preserved - Forgets, but remembers later - Complaints of memory loss - Memory losses minimally impact daily life - Occasional word finding issues - Normal performance on mental status examinations - Does not get lost in familiar places - May make a bad decision every once in a while - Person is more concerned about forgetfulness than are close family members - Is able to use memos, lists, notes - Recent memory for important events, conversations or affairs is not impaired

Answer 33

Normal cognitive aging

Question 34

The following describes normal cognitive again or major NCD? - Memory loss that disrupts daily life - Person becomes dependent on others for ADLs - Gradually unable to follow instructions - Rarely remembers things later - Gradually unable to use notes - Misplaces things and unable to trace steps to find them - Notable decline in memory for recent events - Poor judgement and decision making - Loss of interest in social activities, gradual show signs of inappropriate behaviors - Abnormal performance on mental status examination

Answer 34

Major NCD

Question 35

Describe age associated sensory and perceptual impairments

Answer 35

- Result in slower, limiting, blurring, or distorting sensory info - Invariably affect downstream cognitive function via compromise info processing - May lead to sensory deprivation, causing cognitive decline - May force people to devote more attention to interpreting sensory input, leaving fewer cognitive resources to other tasks

Question 36

Name some compensation for sensory and perceptual issues

Answer 36

- Corrective lenses - Hearing aids - Environmental adaptations - Context informed cognitive strategies

Question 37

What term is described below: Enables combination of information from the environment with that retrieved from LTM

Answer 37

Short term or working memory

Question 38

What is described below: Distorted sense of ones body shape, position or capacity

Answer 38

Autopagnosia

Question 39

What is described below: Inability to name the color of the objects

Answer 39

Color anomia

Question 40

What is described below: Visual distortion of objects such as physical properties of size and weight assessment.

Answer 40

Metamorphopsia

Question 41

What is described below: Inability to recognize and identify familiar faces

Answer 41

Prosopagnosia

Question 42

What is described below: Inability to recognize and interpret visual arrays as a whole. Able to identify individual components of a visual scene Unable to recognize and interpret the gestalt of the scene

Answer 42

Simultanagnosia

Question 43

What term is described below: Ability to perceive depth in relation to the self or in relation to various objects in the environment.

Answer 43

Stereopsis

Question 44

What type of memory and cognitive function is most sensitive to decline with aging?

Answer 44

- Working memory - Executive function