Thatcher & Lubar Hx Of scientific standards

Question 1

For clinical evaluation, how many minimal seconds of artifact Dash free EEG activity should be obtained

Answer 1

60

Question 2

A sample is representative when it is balanced for…

Answer 2

Age, ethnic background, sex, and SES

Question 3

True or False
The QEEG is highly reliable and reproducible

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In 1973 what did the Swedish neurologist, Matousek & Petersen establish?

Answer 4

Standards for peer review, clinical, inclusion and exclusion, criteria, and statistical evaluation for future QEEG normative database

Question 5

The representativeness of a normative database is determined by what?

Answer 5

Sample age range, number of samples for each age group, sex, social, economic status, and geographic distribution

Question 6

Standards for clinical normative databases include…

Answer 6

Inclusion/exclusion criteria, peer-reviewed publications, reliability, and validity

Question 7

What did E. Roy John & colleagues confirm?

Answer 7

The cultural validity and reliability of the Swedish database in 1975

Question 8

True or False
Normative databases, allow clinicians to identify measures that deviate from “normal “population values, and the magnitude of this deviation

Answer 8

True