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TRANSITIONS
Chapter 45 - Sensory
Question | Answer |
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What are the two components of the sensory experience? | Reception and Perception |
This is the process of receiving data about the external and internal environment through the senses. | Sensory Reception |
What are the senses by which people maintain contact with the external environment? | Vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch |
What are the terms used to describe the senses? | Visual (sight), Auditory (hearing), Olfactory (smell), Gustatory (taste), and Tactile (touch) |
The sense that perceives the solidity of objects and their size, shape, and texture. | Stereognosis |
Refers to the awareness of positioning of body parts and movements. | Kinesthesia |
The ability to determine body positioning with eyes closed. | Proprioception |
For a person to receive the necessary data to experience the world, these four conditions must be met. | Stimulus, receptor, impulse, and translation |
This system extends from the hypothalamus to the medulla and mediates arousal. | Reticular Activating System (RAS) |
This occurs when a person experiences decreased sensory input or input that is monotonous , unpatterned, or meaningless. | Sensory Deprivation |
Occurs when a person experiences so much sensory stimuli that the brain is unable to either respond meaningfully or ignore the stimuli. | Sensory Overload |
Impaired or absent functioning in one or more senses. | Sensory Deficit |
Difficulty in the way the brain takes in, organizes, and uses sensory information, causing a person to have problems interacting effectively in theh everyday environment. | Sensory Processing Disorder |
According to Diane Ackerman , high-tech devices and electronics are causing individuals to suffer from this as they lose the ability to "be sensually present in the moment and enjoy the world around us." | Sensory Poverty |
Cataracts, glaucoma, macular degeneration, hypertensive retinopathy, presbycusis, hearing loss, taste and smell changes, as well as, peripheral neuropathy, are just a short list of potential changes related to what? | Sensory Changes Related to Aging |