Dynamic Interaction Model

Originally used for TBIDevelopmentalNeurologicalPsychiatric – schizophrenia in negative symptoms

· Cognitive Psychology · Educational Psychology · Occupational Therapy Practice · Structural Cognitive Modifiability (idea that you can actually modify the way an individual can learn by different strategies)

Information Processing Skills

the ability to create behavors and change them based on situations (observable behavior)

being able to take what you’ve learned and modify them to new situations

Units that are observable and contribute to performance
prioritizing and matching

knowing which is most important in that specific instance (i.e. looking at a dog and walking into the street)

sales people do this all the time; changing dependent on the person/situation

External = observable
Internal = cannot be seen; actual thinking process

1. Input – the receiving of information 2. Elaboration – how you make sense of it in your brain (ex: group study is important, because everyone puts things together differently) 3. Output – performance 4. Feedback – How do you evaluate what you’re doing.

= thinking about thinking “I think therefore I am”; not only do we know a behavior but we know why we’re doing it and can anticipate outcomes

Intellectual awarenessemergent awarenessanticipatory awareness

· the person’s ability to understand at some level that their cognitive function is impaired (I get confused, some things seem harder)

· ability to recognize that they are experiencing a performance problem as it’s occurring

· ability to predict or anticipate when/where someone will have a problem (happens before the problem occurs)