Questions and CORRECT Answers
Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Ways to explain a particular phenomenon or process and to
organize information about the phenomenon
Models - CORRECT ANSWER - Takes on the philosophical base of the profession and
organizes the concepts for practice
Terms to describe practice
View of the profession (unifies the profession)
Systematic examination and treatment of the client
Frames of reference - CORRECT ANSWER - Closely related to model
More specific in application of knowledge and information
Based on theory
Provide direction for evaluation, planning and implementing interventions, and discontinuing
practice
Behavioral theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Focus on changing maladaptive behaviors
Classical operant conditioning (Skinner and Pavlov)
Social learning (Bandura)
Positive or negative reinforcement
Manipulate the environment to get desired outcomes
Biomechanical theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Body as a machine
Improving strength, endurance, and structural integrity to increase function
Splinting, massage, exercise, physical agent modalities (PAMs)
Canadian Model of Occupational Performance - CORRECT ANSWER - Mary Law
,Person is in constant interaction with the environment
Client-centered practice
Spirituality gives meaning to occupations
Cognitive-Behavioral theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Bandura, Rotter, Ellis, and Beck
Maladaptive behaviors are the result of cognitive distortions and self-defeating thinking
Core schemas are what we tell ourselves that influence how we perceive ourselves in our
environment
Positive self-talk to alter core schemas
Cognitive disabilities theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Claudia Allen
Persons with psychosocial dysfunction all have some degree of cognitive impairment with
biological defect
Inability to learn
6 levels of cognitive function
Allen Cognitive Levels ACL
Routine Task Inventory
Allen Diagnostic Modules
Cognitive Performance Test (generalized)
Cognitive perceptual model - CORRECT ANSWER - Sensory integration and motor control
theories
CNS controls sensory processing
Impairments compromise sensory information
Occupational performance requires perceiving sensory information to create an action plan
Cognitive-perceptual stages
Cognitive perceptual stages - CORRECT ANSWER - Steps or stages in the organization of
information
, Cognitive strategies
The process of learning
The dynamic interaction between person, task, and environment
Contemporary Task-oriented - CORRECT ANSWER - Haugen & Mathiowetz
Focus on the interaction between the characteristics of a person and the contexts in which the
person exists
Personal and environmental characteristics have no hierarchy in terms of their influences on
performance
Client-centered
Intervention involves practice and experimentation
Developmental - CORRECT ANSWER - Piaget, Freud, Erickson, Kohlberg, Llorens
Normal sequence to development
Gain in structures leads to gains in function and greater development
Ecology of Human Performance - CORRECT ANSWER - In order to see a person and their
abilities you have to look through the context
As an OT, you want to increase a persons ability to do a task
Adapt
Establish
Restore
Existentialism Humanism - CORRECT ANSWER - Maslow's Hierarchy of needs
Rejected psychoanalytic
Emphasis on man is free to choose and is responsible for his own actions and destiny
Self awareness
Creates own meaning
Learns about self through interpersonal relationships