ACVREP O&M EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025
Affordance - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ To gauge the
difficulty of an environment by its features— is a hill too
steep, gravel too rough to cross the area
Environmental flow - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Perception
while moving through an area
sensory substitution - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ A process by
which information from a damaged sensory channel is
replaced by information entering via other sensory
channels.
perceptual learning - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ learning to
recognize a particular stimulus.
Unskilled perceptual learning - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Must concentrate to focus, notice both relevant and
irrelevant, near features only
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Skilled perceptual learning - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Becomes more automatic, can multitask, focus on
relevant features, able to focus on distant features
motor learning - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Acquisition of
patterns of motor control, through practice and
experience, leading to a relatively permanent change in
the capacity to produce skilled movements.
Perceptual-motor coordination - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Coordinating motor actions with perceptions of thing in
the environment —ascending stairs
procedural knowledge - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Knowledge of how to do something, such as riding a
bike, finding a curb
Episodic knowledge - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ memory for
places or events, episodes of experience
Conceptual/Semantic Knowledge - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ Knowledge of patterns. Provides the ability to
deal with new situations without starting from scratch—
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street-curb-grass-sidewalk-grass relationships,
house/office numbering patterns, etc
Inter-sensory integration - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Dominance model, equal-weighting model, probabilistic
model
Perceptual Errors - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Localization
error & detection error
Localization errors - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Inability to
locate something relative to oneself
Main Processes for crossing a street - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ Alignment, initiating crossing, maintaining a
straight heading
path integration - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Using
information about self-movement & things encountered
on the way to keep to your route
Real & imagined spatial frameworks - .....ANSWER
...✔✔ Mental mapping
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Allocentric frame of reference - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Relating the location of objects/places to one another
topocentric information - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Information about the locations of landmarks/features
Polarcentric information - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Using
cardinal directions
Cartographic information - .....ANSWER ...✔✔
Locations of places/features as they relate to a pattern
such as a grid, numbering, labelling, etc
landmark - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ A feature in the
environment that is permanent —can be a sound, smell,
tactile or visual
Primary Landmark - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ Always
present in the environment and would be difficult to miss
as one travels along a path.
secondary landmark - .....ANSWER ...✔✔ This
landmark is always present, but could be missed