Basic Senses
These are the "far" or "external senses".
What is visual(sight), auditory(hearing), olfactory(smell), gustatory(taste), and tactile(touch)?
Small subcortical system which operates at an unconscious level.
What is the Central Nervous System?
This is where the receptors are located
What is the muscles, joints, and tendons?
What are the utricle, saccule, and semicircular canals
Our largest sensory organ.
What is the skin?
These are our "near" or "internal senses".
What is the vestibular (movement and balance) system and the proprioceptive (muscle and joint sense) system?
Thalamus, Hypothalamus, Amygdala, and the Hippocampus.
What is the Limbic System?
4 functions of the proprioceptive system.
What is grading of movement, postural stability, motor control and motor planning, and kinesthesia?
Four functions of the vestibular system
Every sensation goes through this.
What is the sensory homunculus (parietal lobe)?
She said, "When the flow of sensation is disorganized, life can be like a rush hour traffic jam."
Who is Dr. Jean Ayers?
The key to balance, posture, and coordination
What is the Cerebellum?
Four symptoms of poor proprioception.
What is poor posture, appear clumsy, not able to do things without looking, slap feet while walking, difficulty going up and down stairs, tight shoelaces, hold pencil too hard, difficulty with dressing, poor judgement of force, poor fine motor control, chew on clothing
Craves movement, swinging, rocking or jumping. Can't sit still and always moving around.
What is the hypersensitive vestibular system?
This warns us of harm coming to the body. It causes Fight, Flight, Fright
What is the protective system?
True or False. Sensory Processing occurs on an unconscious or automatic level, not a cognitive level.
What is True?
These structures play a key role in sensory processing and function at the unconscious level.
What is the Brainstem, Cerebellum, and the Thalamus?
The simultaneous sensation of touch and body position.
What is somatosensory?
What is a hypersensitive vestibular system
A person with this overreacts to touch.
What is tactile defensiveness?
These are the three senses that the pioneer of the theory of sensory integration, Dr Jean Ayers, emphasized in her research.
These are 3 basic steps involved in getting information to the brain.
What is receiving input from sensory receptors, relaying information to the brain, identifying what information is important, blocking information that is not important, comparing information with past experiences to form a plan of action, developing a plan, sending the message to the parts of the body needed to execute the plan, carrying out movements as planned.
Three vestibular discriminative difficulties that occur in school.
What is difficulty coordinating neck and eye muscles to copy from board, slouches at desk, leaning on someone or something, loses balance easily, fatigues easily during physical activities, difficulty with bilateral tasks, irregular cadence in walk, fear or dark, and disregulated emotional behavior?
These are three qualities of someone with tactile hyposensitivity.
What is they may get hurt and not realize it, may have fine motor difficulties, may hurt children during play, may be unaware of light touch and not be able to localize touch or feel food crumbs on their face, may be touch hungry?