Sensory Perception Flashcards
Explain the difference between internal and external stimuli
Internal: comes from within the body
External: due to the environment through 5 senses
What are the 7 types of sensory stimuli?
- Sight
- Hearing
- Touch
- Smell
- Taste
- Kinesthetic
- Stereognosis
What are the 3 types of alterations to sensory?
- Sensory deficit
- Sensory deprivation
- Sensory overload
Sensory deprivation is the ___stimulation of senses, due to the ____ of stimuli
under, removal
Sensory overload is the ___stimulation of senses
over
Sensory deficit is the ____ of a normal sensory function
loss/impairment
How does family support affect sensory function?
They provide stimuli
How does age affect sensory function?
Baby: congenital disorders affecting sensation
Older: aging changes decrease sensation
What are 4 types of visual impairments?
- Diabetic retinopathy
- Age Related Macular Degeneration
- Cataract
- Glaucoma
What are 9 types of hearing deficits?
- Conductive hearing loss
- Presbycusis
- Central auditory processing disorders
- Cerumen accumulation
- Meniere’s disease
- Otitis media
- Otosclerosis
- Sensorineural hearing loss
- Tinnitus
Central auditory processing disorders are caused by ____ injury or ____ tumors
brain, brain
Meniere’s disease is ____ fluid in the ear
increased
Otosclerosis is the hardening of which bone in the ear?
Stapes (middle ear)
What does tinnitus sound like?
Ringing sound
What is benign positional vertigo an impairment of?
Balance