12/3/08 Test
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- Context
- interrelated conditions that surround the person. Two primary types of context are temporal and environment
- Deductive Reasoning
- process of elimation
- Occ. Activity
- tasks directly related to the selected occupational role
- Inductive Reasoning
- look at big picture- generalization
- Occupational Performance
- verb; act of doing in the context. ex: kick
- habituation
- organized occupational behavior into recurrent patterns of behavior that make up much of our daily routines. Connects is to and makes us functional w/in our habits
- habits
- involve learned ways of doing occupations that unfold automatically. Ex: How a particular activity is performed, how time is typically used, and style of behavior
- rapport
- in accord, harmony, or sympathy; having a mutual, especially a private, understanding; in mesmerism, in that relation of sympathy which permits influence or communication.
- create
- creating circumstances that support optimal performance for all persons and population
- prevent
- intervention strategy is to preclude the dev. of performance problems
- Occpational Readiness
- interventions that are designed to address deficits in the perosn's systems that are interferring w/ performance in the selected occupational role
- Csikszentmihalyi's flow
- ultimate enjoyment in activites that occurs when a person's capacities are optimally challanged. antonym-disengaged; unsuccessful
- Participation
- big picture; engaging. ex: i kick the football for my team.
- Covert Occupational Performance
- not observable and reflect a series of mental images whereby the person imagines that his/her actions are causing step by step changes int he imagined environment. ex: playing an entire game of chess mentally
- Overt Occupational Performance
- Potentially observable- voluntary neuromuscular system. ex: throwing a baseball w/ skill. Includes speaking, facial expression, and the direction of gaze b/c they are under voluntary motor control
- Reflexes
- aren't occupational b/c they are not under voluntary control. Habits seem to similar to reflexes b/c they can be automatic and unconscious. when sometime such as catching a ball is called "good reflexes" is misleading b/c that is just a well learned habit
- Role
- framework for looking out on the world and acting; shapes us
- Ecology of Human Performance
- context-provides a framework that emphasizes the essential role of context in task performance. this doesnt mean that the role of the person is de-emphasized but that the importance of a person and context factors is considered for each particular task performance. Intervention is directed by what the person wants/needs
- adapt/modify
- modifying the context for performance or the task features of a selected task
- Humility
- the state of being humble; which means not arrogant or cocky; it is an empathetic understanding of another person and attending carefully
- Role strain
- disrruption or termination of role performances or major modifications in how one enacts the role
- Occupational Form
- noun; goes along w/ performance. ex: football (can have physical and sociocultural dimension)
- Tasks
- objective sets of behaviors that are combined to allow an individual to engage in performance that accomplishes a goal
- Alter
- focuses on the context in which the person performs. Interventions are aimed at altering the actual context in which tasks occur
- Developmental Structure
- Sensorimotor, cognitive, and psychosocial abilities and characteristics
- Occupational Perspective
- looking at policies and how it effects occupation
- Occ. Adaptation
- Constructing a positive occupational identity and achieving occupation competence over time in the context of one's environment; FOR
- Occupational Justice
- access to and participation in meaning occupations