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Activity Analysis Flashcards

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  1. What is the PRIMARY purpose of activity analysis in occupational therapy practice?

    Answer: To break down an activity into its component parts and demands

    Activity analysis involves systematically breaking down an activity into its component parts to understand the skills, contexts, and demands required to perform it.

  2. When a COTA performs an activity analysis of brushing teeth, which category describes the muscle strength required?

    Answer: Performance skills — motor

    Muscle strength used during tooth brushing falls under motor performance skills, which are observable goal-directed actions related to movement.

  3. Which of the following BEST represents a 'demand' identified during activity analysis?

    Answer: The objects and properties required to complete the activity

    Activity demands include objects and their properties — the tools, materials, and equipment needed to carry out the activity.

  4. A COTA analyzes cooking as a therapeutic activity. Identifying that the client must sequence steps to prepare a meal is an example of which type of demand?

    Answer: Process skills

    Sequencing steps is a process skill, which involves actions used in managing and adapting performance over time to complete tasks.

  5. In activity analysis, 'space demands' refers to:

    Answer: The physical environment and size requirements of the activity

    Space demands describe the physical environment requirements such as size, arrangement, surface, lighting, temperature, and noise needed for the activity.

  6. A COTA is grading a woodworking activity to match a client's current functional level. Which principle of activity analysis is being applied?

    Answer: Activity gradation

    Activity gradation involves adjusting the difficulty of an activity incrementally to match and then challenge the client's current performance level.

  7. Which framework most commonly guides activity analysis in U.S. occupational therapy practice?

    Answer: The Occupational Therapy Practice Framework (OTPF)

    The OTPF published by AOTA provides the official domain and process language, including activity demands, performance skills, and contexts used in activity analysis.