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Taylor: Ch 34
Key terms- Sensory Stimulation
Question | Answer |
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Adaptation | adjustment of living with other living things and environmental conditions |
Arousal | condition in which the cortical area of the brain receives and responds appropriately to stimuli |
Culturally competent care | care delivered with an awareness of the aspects of the patient's culture |
Disturbed sensory perception | a state in which the individual or group experiences or is at risk for a change in the amount, pattern, or interpretation of incoming stimuli |
Kinesthesia | awareness of positioning of body parts and body movement |
Reticular activating system (RAS) | network of neurons in the core of the brainstem, with ascending and descending tracts to other areas of the brain that monitor and regulate incoming sensory stimuli and level of arousal |
Sensoristasis | arousal state of the reticular activating system; general drive state |
Sensory deficit | impaired or absent functioning of one or more senses |
Sensory deprivation | condition resulting from decreased sensory input or input that is monotonous, unpatterned, or meaningless |
Sensory overload | condition resulting from excessive sensory input to which the brain is unable to meaningfully respond |
Sensory perception | interpretation of incoming stimuli |
Sensory reception | the process of receiving data about the internal or external environment through the senses |
Stereognosis | the sense that perceives the solidity of objects, their size, shape, and texture |
Stimulus | agent, act, or other influence capable of initiating a response by the nervous system |
Visceral | pertaining to inner organs |