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Question 1

Evaluation And Treatment Planning

During your first contact with your client you will spend an hour familiarizing yourself with their problem and educating them about neurofeedback. This is often called the ________________ .

Answer 1

initial interview

Question 2

Rossiter has calculated that 30 sessions of neurofeedback is on average ___________ 5 years of Ritalin.

Answer 2

less than

Question 3

If your client has a head trauma you should request any _____________ available.

Answer 3

neuroimaging reports

Question 4

Excessive beta in the right hemisphere usually correlates with elevated scores on the ______________ .

Answer 4

Beck’s Anxiety Inventory

Question 5

Excessive alpha in the left hemisphere usually correlates with elevated scores on the ________________.

Answer 5

Beck Depression Inventory

Question 6

Excessive theta in the frontal region is usually correlated with elevated scores on the ________________.

Answer 6

A) TOVA
C) IVA
D) a and c

Question 7

The priority in writing treatment plans should be _____________ .

Answer 7

A) fitting goals and objectives to the problem
B) selecting the intervention to fit the clients coping methods
C) altering treatment means to fit the phases of progress

D) all of the above

Question 8

Reviewing client history and determining what the key issue to address first is referred to as _______________ .

Answer 8

problem selections

Question 9

Helping clients arrange their lives in a specific and concrete fashion to achieve their goals is referred to as ________________.

Answer 9

objective construction

Question 10

The culmination of the entire process of treatment plan writing is the ______________.

Answer 10

determination of diagnosis

Question 11

When dealing with insurance companies a well-written ___________ is often crucial to obtaining treatment funding.

Answer 11

treatment plan

Question 12

Research has indicated that psychometric evaluation is ___________ than clinical observation and professional interview.

Answer 12

more accurate

Question 13

Many clinicians will use a TOVA for evaluation every ________ sessions.

Answer 13

10

Question 14

A common computerized performance test used in neurofeedback to assess attentional functioning and arousal level is the _____________.

Answer 14

A) TOVA
B) IVA

****D) a and b***

Question 15

Frequently clients will habituate to relief from a pre-existing problem and __________.

Answer 15

forget the prior intensity of the problem

Question 16

A commonly used test that can be given repeatedly to assess level of anxiety and depression is the _______________.

Answer 16

Beck inventories

Question 17

Common dimensions of measurement in neurometrics are ____________.

Answer 17

A) power
B) coherence
C) asymmetry
D) frequency

E) all of the above

Question 18

Neurometric databases contain information regarding the ___________ of brainwave characteristics for individuals of all ages and both genders.

Answer 18

A) gaussian distribution
B) normal distribution
C) power distribution

D) all of the above*

Question 19

Deviation from what is normally expected of an individual of certain age or gender is usually represented in terms of ______________.

Answer 19

Z scores

Question 20

Absolute power is a measurement of the total EEG power compare to _____________.

Answer 20

other individuals in the database

Question 21

_____________ evaluates the difference in power between hemispheres.

Answer 21

assymetry

Question 22

To determine how much each area of the brain is in communication with other areas one would look at ___________ on the brainmap.

Answer 22

coherence measures

Question 23

When brainmaps show topologies of each frequency band it is referred to as _____________.

Answer 23

single hertz bins

Question 24

A very important dimension of analysis in regard to head injury that has been heavily investigated by Thatcher is _______________.

Answer 24

coherence

Question 25

A dimension that is frequently calculated very differently in different qEEG databases is _______________.

Answer 25

coherence

Question 26

Power differences showing up between databases in alpha, beta, theta, and delta may be due to the fact that ______________.

Answer 26

frequency filters were defined differently

Question 27

The most commonly used montage in qEEG for neurofeedback is __________.

Answer 27

linked ears

Question 28

To obtain similar readings on your equipment to those on the brainmap, one should be sure that the __________ are the same.

Answer 28

A) montages
B) method of power measurements
C) filter settings

D) all of the above*

Question 29

Pre and post maps should be taken around the same time of day since EEG amplitude varies quite a bit as a consequence of ____________.

Answer 29

circadian rhythms

Question 30

Deviations higher than ________ standard deviations are considered significant in neurometrics.

Answer 30

2