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In infant development which comes first:
bilaterality or unilaterality? - correct answers✅✅__________
precedes unilaterality in infant
development
When does hand dominance begin to develop? - correct
answers✅✅Hand dominance begins to develop at 3 to 6 years
and is not fully defined until 6 years
Can someone with receptive aphasia participate in
sensory testing? - correct answers✅✅Individuals with this
disorder cannot comprehend
spoken or written words or symbols. Individuals
cannot understand verbal directions or respond to
sensory stimuli.
What is agnosia? - correct answers✅✅Agnosia is a category of
defecits where the patient
lacks recognition of familiar object as perceived
by the senses. This could involve all the senses and
manifests with problems in body scheme such as
somatognosia and anosognosia.
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What is somatognosia? - correct answers✅✅Lack of awareness
of one's body parts.
What is anosognosia? - correct answers✅✅Anosognosia:
Transient severe form of neglect.
Patient does not recognize the presence or severity
of his paralysis.
What is prosopagnosia? - correct answers✅✅Face blindness.
Inability to identify an individual
by their face.
What is visual-spacial agnosia? - correct answers✅✅Affects
perception of spatial relationship between
objects or between objects and self.
What is auditory agnosia? - correct answers✅✅Inability to
recognize sounds words and
non-words.
What is visual agnosia? - correct answers✅✅Lack of ability to
recognize common objects and
demonstrate their use in an activity.
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What is apraxia? - correct answers✅✅Loss of the ability to
execute or carry out learned
(familiar) movements despite having the desire
and the physical ability to perform the movements
What is ideomotor apraxia? - correct answers✅✅Inability to
imitate gestures or perform a
purposeful motor task on command even though
the patient is able to fully understand the idea or
concept of a task. This is often associated with left
hemisphere damage.
What is ideational apraxia? - correct answers✅✅The disability
of carrying out complex sequential
motor acts. Caused by a disruption of the
conception rather than execution. (Loss of tool
function knowledge)
What is constructional apraxia? - correct answers✅✅Unable to
produce designs in 2 or three
dimensions by copying drawing or constructing.
What is oral apraxia? - correct answers✅✅Difficulty in forming
and organizing intelligable
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words though the musculature required to do so is
in tact. Differs from disarthria because no muscles
are affected and speech is not slurred.
What is a neuroma? - correct answers✅✅A ______ is an
unorganized mass of nerve fibers
resulting from a laceration (either surgical or
accidental) or amputation in which the nerve
regrows in unorganized bundles. Results in sharp
radiating pain.
By what age does an infant sit erect and
unsupported for several minutes? - correct answers✅✅By 8 to
9 months an infant can sit erect and
unsupported.
What is reflex sympathetic dystrophy? - correct
answers✅✅__________ is caused by trauma post-surgical
inflammation infection or laceration to an
extremity. Characterized by pain edema shiny
skin blotchy skin and excessive sweating or
dryness.
What is another name for reflex sympathetic
Guide
In infant development which comes first:
bilaterality or unilaterality? - correct answers✅✅__________
precedes unilaterality in infant
development
When does hand dominance begin to develop? - correct
answers✅✅Hand dominance begins to develop at 3 to 6 years
and is not fully defined until 6 years
Can someone with receptive aphasia participate in
sensory testing? - correct answers✅✅Individuals with this
disorder cannot comprehend
spoken or written words or symbols. Individuals
cannot understand verbal directions or respond to
sensory stimuli.
What is agnosia? - correct answers✅✅Agnosia is a category of
defecits where the patient
lacks recognition of familiar object as perceived
by the senses. This could involve all the senses and
manifests with problems in body scheme such as
somatognosia and anosognosia.
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Guide
What is somatognosia? - correct answers✅✅Lack of awareness
of one's body parts.
What is anosognosia? - correct answers✅✅Anosognosia:
Transient severe form of neglect.
Patient does not recognize the presence or severity
of his paralysis.
What is prosopagnosia? - correct answers✅✅Face blindness.
Inability to identify an individual
by their face.
What is visual-spacial agnosia? - correct answers✅✅Affects
perception of spatial relationship between
objects or between objects and self.
What is auditory agnosia? - correct answers✅✅Inability to
recognize sounds words and
non-words.
What is visual agnosia? - correct answers✅✅Lack of ability to
recognize common objects and
demonstrate their use in an activity.
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What is apraxia? - correct answers✅✅Loss of the ability to
execute or carry out learned
(familiar) movements despite having the desire
and the physical ability to perform the movements
What is ideomotor apraxia? - correct answers✅✅Inability to
imitate gestures or perform a
purposeful motor task on command even though
the patient is able to fully understand the idea or
concept of a task. This is often associated with left
hemisphere damage.
What is ideational apraxia? - correct answers✅✅The disability
of carrying out complex sequential
motor acts. Caused by a disruption of the
conception rather than execution. (Loss of tool
function knowledge)
What is constructional apraxia? - correct answers✅✅Unable to
produce designs in 2 or three
dimensions by copying drawing or constructing.
What is oral apraxia? - correct answers✅✅Difficulty in forming
and organizing intelligable
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words though the musculature required to do so is
in tact. Differs from disarthria because no muscles
are affected and speech is not slurred.
What is a neuroma? - correct answers✅✅A ______ is an
unorganized mass of nerve fibers
resulting from a laceration (either surgical or
accidental) or amputation in which the nerve
regrows in unorganized bundles. Results in sharp
radiating pain.
By what age does an infant sit erect and
unsupported for several minutes? - correct answers✅✅By 8 to
9 months an infant can sit erect and
unsupported.
What is reflex sympathetic dystrophy? - correct
answers✅✅__________ is caused by trauma post-surgical
inflammation infection or laceration to an
extremity. Characterized by pain edema shiny
skin blotchy skin and excessive sweating or
dryness.
What is another name for reflex sympathetic
