OTA 130: Occupational Analysis Chapter 6 - Perception

Vocabulary flashcards covering the key categories of perception and sensory discrimination as defined in the Chapter 6 lecture notes for OTA 130.

Perception

The brain’s ability to recognize and understand sensations.

Auditory perception

The ability to discriminate between sounds, tones, and pitches by interpreting signals from the environment; it is utilized for tasks that require a person to distinguish between $2$ sounds.

Tactile discrimination

The ability to distinguish different textures by touch and understand the dimensions and physical properties of objects, relying on touch receptors in the hand to allow for manipulation without sight.

Visual discrimination

The mental processing of what the eyes detect, involving the ability to perceive and interpret visual information such as shapes, objects, colors, and other visual stimuli.

Olfactory discrimination

The ability to distinguish between different smells, which may alert an individual to take action.

Vestibular perception

A function of the inner ear that involves mental processing of positional signals to allow a person to know their direction of movement, speed, head position, and body position in space.

Proprioception

A sensory function that detects the position of body parts, muscle length lengthening and shortening, and the direction and speed of limb movement without requiring vision.