Cognition

Intervention: Build relationships to aid in memory

In formation is stored in memory according to a propositional structure

Intervention: Teach client to organize information in clear hierachichal structure to build or rebuild functional networks
Example from class: The OT students are coming. What happens on Thurs. Show pictures who is this and what happens when they come visit.

Intervention: person must focus on thematic content and try to integrate novel experiences into existing schema-challenge is to determine which schema processes are deficient
4 Data Structures

Knowledge is the connection among units not the units themselves.
"Opposite of schema theory"
Intervention: Teach clients to inhibit responding and to process more before settling on a response ex. rehearse statements before saying them

a body of organized information that summarizes a persons experience and attitudens about any aspect of life

GRADUALLY realize solution to problem

Techniques that most consistently solve problems are the ones that the person is most likely to try first in a new problem solving strategy

Intervention: Organize existing strategies into a workable hierarchy and provide new strategies that will be useful in a variety of situations

SUDDENLY realize solution to problem

Good problem solving skill is the ability to reorganize or negotiate either the context or the goal to achieve a solution

Humans create mental recipes that will produce solutions to problems

Category Recall: Force person to recall categories not specifc objects
Self Questioning: What is this the same as?
Adequate Response Time: count to three

Consistency
Accessibility
Grouping
Seperation:
Proximity

place for everything

keeping things most often used physicaly close

items commonly used grouped together

Things kept in distant locations categories or time frames

Keep items together near place where used

Propositional Theory
Associative Network Model
Schema Theory
Parallel Distributing Model

Stimulus Response
Gestalt Model
Information Processing Model

Set procedure that will ALWAYS work but not necessarily efficient.

It works well in situations where the problem has potentially few solutions or where the same problem recurs

Rules that may produce a quick result but may not solve the problem

Trial and error
Action goal
Backward stratgey
Contradiction strategy
Explanation and concensus
Give the problem a rest strategy

Generate and test solutions randomly until one works

two step strategy that requires breaking complex problems into various parts or subgoals

Reverse of action goal.

First assume goalhas been met then determine what would have been necessary to solve the problem

Do opposite of what one would normally do to solve the problem "what could i do to make this problem worse"

Explain problem to another person

reduce fatigue and allow solution to surface

Set fixation
Element Fixation
Rigid creativity

specify the problem
Organize your solution
Listen to Others advice
Vary your solution
Evaluate your solution

Attribute theory
Prototype theory
Exemplar theory

Assumes that humans define concepts and categories by creating mental list of features

Intervention: Teach client to recognize and mentally list attributes

Assumes that people learn and remember the gist or core features of a concept

Intervention: Show concrete examples

Reverse of prototype theory

Examples of concepts are stored in memory. Person contiuosly updates these concepts with new instances

Rules are concepts with consequences

Intervention: Teach clients specific behaviors relevant to different social situations, provide simulations

The change in motor behavior experienced over the life span

Ability to organize and control functional movement

Processes of acquiring motor skills defined as voluntary body or limb movements used accomplish action or task goals, allows motor development to occur

Maturation Theories
Gesells reciprocal weaving
Mcgraws longitudinal perspective
Perceptual Cognitive
Dynamic Systems Theory

Hierarchical Theories
Feedback and programming
open and closed loop
Program models
Brookes Model

Adams Closed Loop
Schmidts Schema
Systems Models
Dynamic Systems Theory

Dynamic Systems Theory

1. Developmental sequence
2. Directional Concepts
3. Mobility and Stability
4. Sensation

Dynamic Systems theory