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What is the primary difference between sensation and perception?
What is the primary difference between sensation and perception?
- Sensation and perception both involve the conscious selection of sensory inputs.
- Sensation is the passive process of receiving sensory inputs, while perception is the active process of interpreting information. (correct)
- Sensation and perception are synonymous and refer to the same process.
- Sensation is the active process of interpreting information, while perception is the passive process of receiving sensory inputs.
What characterizes normal sensation?
What characterizes normal sensation?
- It is an active process of bringing information from the outside world into the body and to the brain.
- It includes paresthesia and dysesthesia.
- It is characterized by dominating the patient's attention with painful and alarming sensations.
- It reflects a continuous process, little of which reaches consciousness under ordinary conditions. (correct)
What is paresthesia?
What is paresthesia?
- The passive process of receiving information through sensory inputs.
- Denotes all types of abnormal sensations including painful ones, regardless of.
- Tingling or pins-and-needles sensations but may include a wide variety of other abnormal sensations, except pain. (correct)
- The active process of selecting, organizing and interpreting information brought to the brain by the senses.
What does dysesthesia denote?
What does dysesthesia denote?
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What is the process of quantitative sensory testing used for?
What is the process of quantitative sensory testing used for?
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