Performance Skills

Question 1

What is the somatosensory system?

Answer 1

Utilizes proprioceptive, tactile, and movement to help with learning

Question 2

What approach are best used for a somatosensory approach?

Answer 2

Hand over hand

Question 3

• Ideational Apraxia:

Answer 3

inability to perform a purposeful motor act (automatic or upon command)

Question 4

• Visual Agnosia:

Answer 4

• Visual Agnosia: inability to recognize familiar objects despite normal function of the eyes and optic nerve

Question 5

• Anosognosia

Answer 5

the denial, neglect, or lack of awareness of the presence or severity of one’s paralysis

Question 6

• Asomatognosia:

Answer 6

an impairment in the body scheme

Question 7

Dysmetria:

Answer 7

overshooting or undershooting of a target

Question 8

Akathisia:

Answer 8

side effect of anti psychotic medications exhibited by restlessness, hand tremors, and shaky legs

Question 9

“Associated Reaction”

Answer 9

is to provide resisted voluntary movements to the unaffected limb to facilitate an association reaction in the affected limb.

Question 10

Motor apraxia:

Answer 10

ineffective motor planning to achieve a goal

Question 11

Sensorimotor Approaches:

Answer 11

activites that do not require the individual to think about the steps needed to complete an activity; these activities should be spontaneous/automatic/non-cortical