NEAR Certification Day One Quiz

What does NEAR stand for?

• Neurocognitive Education and Regeneration

• Never Ever Allow Rabbits

• Neurological Enablement and Rehabilitation

• Neuropsychological and Educational Approach to Remediation

Dave has schizophrenia and receives medical Rx. Which symptoms can most likely cause a long-term impact on functioning?

• Persecutory delusions and theory of mind difficulties

• Olfactory hallucinations and avolition

• Working memory and emotion perception difficulties

• Auditory hallucinations and thought disorder

What does 'working memory' refer to?

• Retrieve stored memory and manipulate info in the mind for brief periods.

• Responding correctly to a series of rapidly presented stimuli.

• Remembering verbal information over longer periods of time.

• Having to pay attention to more than one tasks at the same time.

What is the relationship between neurocognition and social cognition?

• Unrelated to each other but both affect functioning

• Distinct but related and both affect functioning

• Distinct and do not affect functioning directly

• Related but do not affect functioning directly

What is 'emotion processing/perception'?

• Processing other people's perspectives.

• Perceiving social cues from behaviours in social contextual situations.

• Recognising feelings from facial expressions and/or vocal inflections.

• Recognising the causes of particular positive or negative events.

Cognitive problems will go away when the hallucinations and delusions stop. True or False?

• True

• Only true when antipsychotics are given.

• False

• Don't know

During a NEAR computer-assisted cognitive exercise session, the therapists….

• watch clients attempt the games but are hands-off.

• prescribe all computer games and coach clients every step of the games.

• let clients figure out use of strategies themselves but will praise them.

• work collaboratively on games selection and facilitate use of strategies.

Which of the following statements on rehearsal and strategy learning is TRUE?

• Rehearsal is more effective for functioning but strategy improves cognition

• Rehearsal is repeated practice but strategy is finding ways to manage task

• Rehearsal requires more effort than strategy learning

• Strategy learning can only be used in top-down approaches.

Which of the following statements about the use of contextualized cognitive games is WRONG?

• Contextualization increases motivation to engage.

• Contextualized games are easier to succeed in.

• Contextualized games facilitate better transfer of learning.

• Contextualized games with socialization elements can foster relatedness.

Gary has difficulties remembering his grocery list. Why does therapist Joan test his attention?

• Attention problem can affect encoding of info which appears as memory problem.

• Joan has made a mistake and should test Gary's memory immediately.

• Attention tests are often more contextualized than memory tests.

• Joan needs to train him in attention strategies first.