The nurse places a key in the hand of a patient and he identifies it as a penny. What term would the nurse use to describe this finding?
a. Extinction
b. Astereognosis
c. Graphesthesia
d. Tactile discrimination
ANS: B
Stereognosis is the person's ability to recognize objects by feeling their forms, sizes, and weights. Astereognosis is an inability to identify objects correctly, and it occurs in sensory cortex lesions. Tactile discrimination tests fine touch. Extinction tests the person's ability to feel sensations on both sides of the body at the same point.
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