Vocab 2 Flashcards
What is loss of initiative, follow-through, and sense of direction?
Passive behavior
What is the action of urinating.
Micturition
What is attends to emotional signals in decision making?
gut instinct
What is putting somatosensory stimuli (touch and proprioception) together to recognize objects?
Stereognosis
Caused by lesion what is the inability to identify an object by active touch of the hands without other sensory input, such as visual or sensory information
Asterognosis
What is focusing on specific aspects of environment?
Selective attention
What is changing the focus from one aspect to another?
Shifting
What is reading, writing, signing?
Symbolic language
What is math, computer language?
Symbolic communication
What is inability to select or use a tool appropriately?
Sensory apraxia
What is a learning disorder that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and learning how they relate to letters and words (decoding).
Dyslexia
What is patients lose the ability to read but can still write and comprehend the spoken word?
Alexia
What is difficulty in learning or comprehending arithmetic, such as difficulty in understanding numbers, learning how to manipulate numbers, performing mathematical calculations and learning facts in mathematics.
Dyscalculia
What is a form of agnosia that manifests itself primarily in the inability to recognize or differentiate between sounds. It is not a defect of the ear or “hearing”, but rather a neurological inability of the brain to process sound meaning.
Auditory agnosia
What is difficulty finding the names of people, animals, or objects?
Anomia
