HTHSCI 1H06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Vital Capacity, Autonomic Nervous System, Optical Illusion
10 Oct 2017
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How we know what we are doing within our environment (consciousness) How we initiate activity in response to our environment. Judgments we make about what occurs in our daily activities. Inability to plan a sequence of complex movements needed to complete multi-stepped tasks, such as making coffee (sequencing) Loss of spontaneity in interacting with others. loss of flexibility in thinking. Integration of different senses that allows for understanding a single concept. Inability to attend to more than one object at a time. Inability to locate the words for writing (agraphia) Lack of awareness of certain body parts and/or surrounding space (apraxia) that leads to difficulties in self-care. inability to focus visual attention. Word blindness - inability to recognize words. Production of hallucinations visual illusions - inaccurately seeing objects. Inability to recognize the movement of an object (movement agnosia) Difficulty in understanding spoken words (wernicke"s aphasia) Disturbance with selective attention to what we see and hear.
