Sensory, perception, and cognition

Question 1

Types of sensory awareness?

Answer 1

Detection
Discrimination
Quantification
Recognition (temporal lobe)

Question 2

What does interpretation mean?

Answer 2

Ability to make sense in time and space of a sensory stimulus

Question 3

What is attention?

Answer 3

Ability to focus on one stimulus at the exclusion of others when necessary

Question 4

What is intrapersonal vs extrapersonal space?

Answer 4

Intrapersonal= within the body
Extrapersonal= at a distance (ex:visual, auditory, heat and cold)

Question 5

Consequences of sensory impairments?

Answer 5

Loss of active movement
Loss of “tone”
    hypotonia
Loss of ability to sustain muscle contractions
    Due to loss of sensation
    Inability to sustain grip
Modulate in CNS

Question 6

What are three perceptual and cognitive impairments that we discussed in class?

Answer 6

Neglect
Agnosia
Apraxia

Question 7

T or F: Unilateral spacial neglect is most common/more severe with a right sided stroke.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

What is neglect?

Answer 8

Inability to direct attention to stimuli located on the side contralateral to a lesion
Lack of recognition of body part
Lack of recognition of ½ of visual field

Question 9

What is the difference between homomynous hemianopsia and neglect?

Answer 9

A person with neglect will not recognize that they have a deficit whereas a person with HH will know.

Question 10

What is visual object agnosia?

Answer 10

Can describe an object but cannot put a name to the object.

Question 11

What is prosopagnosia?

Answer 11

Inability to recognize familiar faces.

Question 12

What is apraxia and give an example.

Answer 12

Difficulty performing a willful purposeful movement or initiating movements not accounted for by weakness, sensory loss, incoordination, inattention or lack of comprehension.

Verbal, buccofacial (majority, children), limb (ideational, ideomotor), constructional, and dressing

Question 13

What are consequences of sensory, perceptual or cognitive impairments (4 that were specifically talked about in class-general categories)?

Answer 13

Movement
Safety
Postural control
Social / behavioral

Question 14

What is an examination of Interpretation of Extrapersonal Space?

Answer 14

Draw a daisy/clock/house

Block design tests

Question 15

What is cognition?

Answer 15

the ability to process, sort, retrieve and manipulate information

Question 16

What is perception?

Answer 16

the integration of sensory impressions into psychologically meaningful information

Question 17

What does alert and oriented times 4 mean?

Answer 17

Person, place, time, situation

Question 18

T or F: Prognosis is worse if both perception and interpretation are impaired.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

1 guideline when treating a pt with cognitive impairment?

Answer 19

Reduce confusion.

Question 20

Describe the clinical picture of a patient with pusher’s syndrome.

Answer 20

Push with strong side toward weaker side.

Their interpretation of midline is approximately 18 toward the side of lesion.

Question 21

T or F: Pusher’s syndrome if present does not go away.

Answer 21

False: it is rarely present 6 months after a stroke.