OT Performance Skills Sensory/Perceptual – Flashcards
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Sensory awareness
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Receiving a differentiating sensory stimuli
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Sensory motor
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Ability to recieve input, process information, and produce output
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Sensory processing
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Interpreting sensory stimuli; can be further defined as hypo or hyper
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Tactile
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Interpreting light touch, pressure, temperature, pain, and vibration throughout skin contact/receptors
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Proprioception
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Interpreting stimuli originating in the muscles, joints, and other internal tissue that gives information about the position of one body part in relation to another
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Vestibular
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Interpreting stimuli from the inner ear receptors regarding head position and movement
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Auditory
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Interpreting and localizing sounds and discrimination background sounds
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Gustatory
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Interpreting tastes
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Visual
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Interpreting stimuli through the eyes, including peripheral vision and acuity, and awareness of color and pattern
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Visual scanning
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Use of the eyes to quickly and systematically look over objects
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Visual fixation(Visual attention)
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the ability to maintain visual fixation and concerntration on a particualr target or object.
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Perceptual processing
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Organizing and interpreting sensory input into meaningful patterns
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Pain
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interpreting noxious stimuli
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Kinesthesia
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Identifying the excursion and directions of joint movement
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Right-left discrimination
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Differentiting one side from the other
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Position in space
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Determining the spatial relationship of figures and objects to self other forms and objects. aperson's awareness of te placement of their body in space.
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Spatial relations
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Determining the position of objects relative to each other
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Topographical orientation
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Determining the location of objects and setting and the route to the location
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Stereognosis
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identifying objects through proprioception, cognition, and the sense of touch
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Body scheme
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Acquiring an internal awareness of the body and the relationship of body parts to each other
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Figure ground
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Differentiating between foreground and background forms and objects
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Form constancy
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Recognizing forms and objects as the same in various environments, positions and size
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Visual closure
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Identifying forms or objects from incomplete presentations
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Depth perception
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Determining the relative distance between objects, figures and landmarks and the observer, and changes in planes and surfaces
