Perceptual Dysfunction

What term refers to the inability to recognize or interpret sensory stimuli despite intact sensory function?

• Apraxia

• Agnosia

• Anesthesia

• Infusion

Individuals with right-left discrimination difficulties may struggle with:

• Identifying familiar faces

• Interpreting auditory stimuli

• Distinguishing their right and left side

• Recognizing tactile sensation

Finger agnosia is characterized by the inability to:

• Loss of ability to recognize familiar objects

• Use of fingers to perform movements

• Discriminate between right and left hand

• Recognize and name one's own fingers

Anosognosia refers to

• Understand the spatial relationships

• Difficulty in perceiving the visual stimulie

• Lack of awareness or denial of one's own deficits

• Inability to recognize faces

Prosopagnosia depicts commonly as:

• Difficulty in recognize familiar faces

• Inability to process auditory information

• Impaired tactile discrimination

• Poor spatial orientation

Somatoagnosia involves

• Difficulty understanding one's own body structure and its relationship

• Inability to hear and interpret sounds

• Loss of ability to recognize familiar objects

• Impaired visual recognition

Visual agnosia is characterized by:

• Inability to recognize and identify visual stimuli

• Inability to visualize

• Lack of awareness of one's own body parts

• Impaired tactile discrimination

Tactile agnosia refers to the inability to:

• Identify one's own body parts visually

• Perform skilled movements with the hands

• Discriminate between right and left sides

• Recognize familiar objects by touch

Auditory agnosia is associated with:

• Inability to perform purposeful movements

• Impaired ability to understand speech

• Difficulty in recognizing familiar sounds

• Loss of awareness of spatial relationships

Body image disorders involve:

• Inability to recognize and name one's own fingers

• Distorted perception of one's own body

• Difficulty in identifying familiar objects

• Impaired ability to understand speech