Deck 12: Visual Perception

Question 1

Which of the following is not a visual-receptive function?

A) Visual-fixation
B) Figure-ground
C) Binocular fusion
D) Accommodation

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following diagnoses has a high percentage of children with visual perceptional problems?

A) Cerebral palsy
B) Retinopathy of prematurity
C) Learning disabilities
D) All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which activity would be most helpful to improve visual attention skills for a 6-year-old?

A) Where's Waldo?
B) Repeating math facts
C) Reciting the alphabet
D) Playing chess

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which term is not considered part of visual discrimination?

A) Recognition
B) Categorization
C) Matching
D) Accommodation

Question 5

Robert has trouble finding his way back to his seat in the classroom after going to the lunch room, despite doing this every day. Which spatial perception concept does this illustrate?

A) Topographic orientation
B) Position in space
C) Depth perception
D) Visual imagery

Question 6

Jill is a 4-year-old girl who has difficulty finding things hidden among other things. Which statement reflects how an occupational therapist would interpret this finding?

A) Figure-ground perception does not stabilize until 6 to 7 years; Jill is still young.
B) Jill's poor figure-ground perception is problematic; she should have mastered this at 4 years of age.
C) Perception of spatial relationships improves until about 10 years; Jill has no deficit.
D) Jill's poor perception of spatial relationships is problematic; she should have mastered this at 4 years.

Question 7

Scott is able to find his favorite T-shirt among all his other clothes on his bedroom floor. Which visual-perceptual concept does this example illustrate?

A) Form constancy
B) Visual closure
C) Figure-ground
D) Position in space

Question 8

Requesting that the teacher provide Sam's homework on larger print is what type of intervention strategy to help a child with poor visual perception?

A) Developmental
B) Neurophysiological
C) Learning theory
D) Compensatory

Question 9

The first-grade teacher wants to help all the children read and asks the occupational therapy practitioner for suggestions. Which suggestion is least helpful for helping children in her class?

A) Provide letter cubes for making words
B) Use colorful, high-interest pictures
C) Encourage the children to act out the words
D) Read to the children in a low voice, slowly

Question 10

What methods could be helpful for a child showing problems with spacing in handwriting?

A) Using the pencil or finger to guide amount of space between words
B) Lined paper
C) Graph paper and leaving one box space between words and sentences
D) All of the above

Question 11

Which of the following is an example of a compensatory approach?

A) Perceptual training
B) Providing visual stimuli to direct attention
C) Vision training
D) None of the above

Question 12

What type of approach is the therapist using to improve visual-perceptual skills by promoting organization of movement, reinforcing sensory feedback around a goal, and promoting postural stability for oculomotor efficiency?

A) Developmental
B) Neurophysiological
C) Learning theory
D) Compensatory

Question 13

Approximately how much of a school-age child's day is spent on near-point (i.e., reading and writing) visual tasks?

A) 50%
B) 90%
C) 70%
D) 25%

Question 14

Tony, who is 5 years old, has difficulty matching pictures to words, although he is very good at identifying many fishing items he uses every day. He cannot identify the letters of the alphabet or recall pictures observed moments before. What type of deficit is this called?

A) Visual discrimination
B) Visual memory
C) Spatial vision
D) Visual attention

Question 15

What type of memory is needed to recognize the letters of words to be written?

A) Motor memory
B) Visual memory
C) Selective attention
D) Kinesthetic memory