PrePractice Considerations Flashcards
Appropriately utilize pre-practice ideas in the clinic including…
Motivation
Verbal instructions
Modeling
Sensory & perceptual pre-training
Motivation
- Learner perceives the task as meaningful or desirable or personally valuable
- Goals should be moderately difficult in order to encourage “rising” to meet the goals, but not too difficult or resulting in failure so that learner quits trying
- Helps them recognize the steps needed to get to their goals
Verbal Instructions
-powerful tool
-Ex:
“Hoooooooolllllllllddddddd” (hold) > isometric
“Push” > ballistic, concentric
Modeling and Demonstration
Demonstrate the skill so the learner can directly observe the elements of the action
Best to observe “peer” or “as learning” model
- good to observe mistakes and how model corrected
- must obtain the model’s KR and see how the model changed the subsequent trial due to that KR
Best to observe an “expert” model
- Repeated observance of flawless performance
- Good in “Cognitive” stage so they can see concepts they had not concerned before
Sensory Pre-training
- proprioception - giving the patient the “feel” of the correct movement (eyes shut if vision is interfering)
- proprioception - having patients hold heavy and light objects and produce matching grip forces
- sensation - reach drag fingertips across a table to get a “sensory” estimate of distance
Perceptual Pre-training
- Setting up a task to enhance figure-ground (example of enhancing [depth] perception)
- -example: white dishes/glasses on black tablecloth
-Evaluating and verbalizing the physical features of objects prior to reaching
-examples:
heavy and light objects
big and small objects
