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10 Cards in this Set
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Delusions |
Beliefs that are not based in reality and that reflects an unconscious need or fear |
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Hallucinations |
False sensory perceptions: seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, or tasting objects that are not there |
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Perception |
Views of oneself and the world, influenced by culture, religion, family, experiences, expectations, and knowledge |
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Reticular activating system |
Part of the brain responsible for bringing together information from the cerebellum and other brain parts as well as from the sense organs |
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Sensation (sensory) information |
Telling a patient what he or she will see hear taste smell or feel in a particular situation |
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Sensoristasis |
State of optimal sensory input, which differs for each person |
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Sensory deprivation |
Lack of meaningful sensory stimuli; monotonous input or inference with the processing of informatiom; leads to behavioral changes ranging from boredom to psychosis |
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Sensory overload |
State of arousal in which a person cannot manage the intensity or quantity of incoming sensory stimuli |
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Sensory perception |
The ability to receive sensory input and transform the inputs through various physiologic processes into meaningful information |
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RAS reticular activating system |
Serves to monitor and regulate incoming stimuli |
