Sensory Perception Flashcards
What is sensory deficit?
Deficit in expected function of 1 or more of the 5 senses
What is sensory deprivation?
Reduction of stimuli to 1 or more of the 5 senses
What is sensory overload?
Receiving stimuli at rate and intensity beyond the brains capacity to process in a meaningful way- anxious, restless, confused
What is sensory processing disorder?
Oversensitive to normal stimuli
Ex. Noise of a car driving or light touch of a shirt against skin
The inability to see far away objects clearly (nearsightedness) is called?
Myopia
The inability to see nearby objects (farsightedness) is called?
Hyperopia
A defect in the eye making objects nearby and faraway objects look blurry or distorted is called?
Astigmatism
Age related farsightedness- gradual decrease in ability to clearly see nearby objects and begins during middle adulthood is called
Presbyopia
The clouding of the lungs of eye that causes clients vision to be blurry, hazy, or less colorful caused by previous eye surgeries, chronic diseases (diabetes) and older age is called?
Cataract
By age 75 1/2 Americans have cataracts
Damage to the blood vessels of retina, leading to blood leaking from vessels causing impaired vision and blindness during adulthood (usually in both eyes); seeing spots or floaters & blurred vision is called
Diabetic
Control BP, cholesterol and glucose
Increase in intraocular pressure due to buildup of fluid or aqueous humor that causes compression of optic nerve (loss of peripheral vision) leads to blindness is called
Glaucoma
Can be slowed if early detected
Affecting the macula (small central portion of the retina) degenerating macula leads to loss of central vision as clients ages- number one cause of vision loss and blindness for those 65 years +
Macular degeneration
Irreversible
Snellen chart measure how accurately the client can read _________ standing ______ away from chart with ____ and read smallest line they can see
Lines of letters of various sizes, standing 20 feet away, both eyes open
You test near vision with a _____.
Book
Eye exams should be every __ years.
2
After you turn 65, eye exam are ______.
Annual
A ringing, buzzing, roaring, clicking, hissing, humming sound. Seen w/ age-related hearing loss, ear injury, ceremony (ear wax) or circulatory issues is called
Tinnitus
Problems in the inner ear or vestibulocochlear nerve mainly occurring in preterm newborns, childhood infections, chromosomal abnormality, mumps,measles, meningitis is called
Sensorineural hearing loss
Cranial nerve 8
Bilateral age related hearing loss that occurs gradually is called
Presbycusis
When a medication causes damage or dysfunction of the cochlea or vestibule this is called
Ototoxicity
When sound is unable to travel from the outer ear to eardrum and middle ear due to ear trauma, inflammation, cerumen impact ion, perforated eardrum, foreign body blockage this is called
Conductive hearing loss
An abnormal growth in the middle ear is called
Otosclerosis
Hearing loss is measured by
dB loss
Categorized as mild, moderate, severe or profound
Inability to articulate and understand speech and written language is called
Aphasia
Unable to speak words they want to say due to damage to frontal lobe of brain (brocas) is called
Expressive aphasia (or non fluent aphasia)
Difficulty understanding what is being said or that others cannot understand; making up words & using no meaning- long sentences due to damage to the temporal lobe (wernickes) is called
Comprehensive aphasia (or fluent aphasia)
Unable to speak or write is called
Global aphasia
Slight hearing loss is measured between ____ to ___ dB.
16- 25
Mild hearing loss is measured from ___ to __ dB.
26-39
Moderate hearing loss is measured from ___ to___ dB.
41- 69
Severe hearing loss is measured from ___ to ___ dB.
70 - 89
Profound hearing loss is measured by ___ dB.
90+
What drugs can affect taste?
NSAIDs, antibiotics, antihypertensive, psychotropics, antihistamines
What drugs can affect hearing?
NSAIDs, antibiotics, loop diuretics, aspirin, antihistamines
What drugs can affect smell?
Antibiotics, antihistamines
What drugs can affect sight?
Antihistamines
