90 Questions
When you employ a growth mindset, effort is a necessary ingredient if growth and mastery are desired
True
Current information on brain structure and function may have implications for educators
True
You are attending a physical therapy class on therapeutic exercises. The teacher shows her slides in front, discusses the significance of each exercise, and allows the students to demonstrate. What kind of input is the teacher providing?
Multimodal input
In the context of memory, what does the term "encoding" refer to?
The process of forming and transforming sensory information into a memory representation
You have a challenging science exam coming up. Which practice strategy is most effective for preparing and performing well on the exam?
Creating a study schedule that involves reviewing a little bit of material each day leading up to the exam
A patient who has difficulty recalling recent events or forming new memories after a brain injury is likely experiencing damage to the:
Semantic Memory
Memory is the basis for learning and includes the following: Declarative memory (long term memory) (procedural, emotional, classical conditioning) and Nondeclarative memory (short term memory) (semantic, episodic)
False
Selective attention is preserved with aging
True
As high-structure builders and rule learners tend to learn more efficiently, instructors need to encourage learners to analyze problems and examples for underlying similarities and principles
True
Which of the following is the correct sequence according to Kolb’s Cycle
Act reflect conclude apply
It is irrelevant to use personally relevant activities when treating elderly patients
False
Mild dehydration is acceptable and cannot negatively affect certain aspects of attention and cognitive function
False
Your client is an aspiring basketball player aiming to improve his free throw shooting. Which practice strategy would likely yield better results?
Practicing free throws in different locations, both indoors and outdoors.
You are trying to learn the lesson by looking at the notes being presented to you. What lobe of the brain has greater activity?
Occipital lobe
Use authentic experiences, including role plays, field trips, and simulations (e.g., standardized patients).
Recruiting multiple memory pathways
To be efficient in spaced practice, study straight for an hour and browse your Instagram feed for 5 hours
False
Napping benefits memory consolidation
True
Mixing different subjects or skills during study sessions is a form of spaced practice
True
High structure builders have difficulty sorting through essential and nonessential information to create frameworks and structures that facilitate learning.
False
Lobe that contains the primary motor area that enables voluntary control of skeletal muscle
frontal lobe
You're studying a complex mathematical concept. Which practice strategy would be most helpful for deep understanding and retention?
Teaching the concept to a study group or explaining it to a friend.
A musician who can effortlessly play a complex piece on the piano without consciously thinking about each key press is demonstrating:
Procedural Memory
Desirable difficulties, challenges, and temporary hurdles result in more limited and diminished learning practice that is retrieval-based, interleaved, spaced, and varied and is much more difficult than reading and rereading class notes and a text
False
Practice strategies include retrieval, spaced, interleaved, and varied practice
True
Patient H.M., who had his hippocampus removed, experienced severe anterograde amnesia. What aspect of memory was primarily affected in his case?
Episodic Memory
Information with any emotional connection will receive higher priority for processing than neutral information.
Attention and arousal
Allow little time for your elderly patient to process information
False
Linking learning to something meaningful or using hooks that enhance the emotional charge of the information being presented may increase the likelihood that the learner will attend to the incoming information.
Attention and Arousal
Which type of memory is responsible for storing and recalling general world knowledge, language, and concepts?
Semantic Memory
You're trying to improve your critical thinking skills. Which practice strategy would be most effective?
Engaging in debates or discussions that challenge your perspective
You are a physical therapy student attending a lecture. The teacher did not present her slides yet and instead is discussing everything by memory. What lobe of your brain may have greater activity during this time?
Temporal lobe
Loss of muscle coordination results from damage to the
Cerebellum
Your student is studying in the library. You observe that he is discussing back to himself the things that he learned in your class and creating mnemonics for better retention. What strategy is he applying? Not sure of the answer
Rehearsal and elaboration
The midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata are housed in the
Brain stem
A PT student is delivering a presentation to the class. He maintains good eye contact, use clear gestures, and project their voice with enthusiasm. Which types of communication are the student effectively utilizing?
Verbal, nonverbal, and paraverbal communication
CALMER approach
“What can I do to feel less angry or apprehensive?” = Alter your own feelings Venting out to a colleague for relief and support = Reach out “After 10 PTR sessions, you will have full ROM on your shoulder because hard callus would have formed by then” = Educate make sure that your emotions are not getting in the way of fully hearing your patient's concerns = Listen
CALMER approach
“Do I have your consent to push through this plan of care throughout the rest of your treatment?” = Make an agreement make sure that your emotions are not getting in the way of fully hearing your patient's concerns = Listen Venting out to a colleague for relief and support = Reach out “After 10 PTR sessions, you will have full ROM on your shoulder because hard callus would have formed by then” = Educate
Which barrier to communication relates to distractions, such as loud noises, poor reception, or technical glitches?
Environmental Barrier
Communicating in Teams
“Involve the team for discharge disposition (occupational therapy, speech, MD, nursing, discharge planners)” = SBAR “Upon PT evaluation, Pt had decreased active range of motion on the R shoulder in all planes, 7/10 pain upon overhead reaching, with 2/5 muscle strength on the R deltoids.” = SBAR The receiver confirms receipt of the message, confirms the message, and provides feedback = CHECK BACK immediately bring to the attention of the team any questions or concerns that you may have that could impact your patient = – CALL OUT
Communicating in teams
I PASS the BATON – = hand off The receiver confirms receipt of the message, confirms the message, and provides feedback. = CHECK BACK “Upon PT evaluation, Pt had decreased active range of motion on the R shoulder in all planes, 7/10 pain upon overhead reaching, with 2/5 muscle strength on the R deltoids.” = SBAR immediately bring to the attention of the team any questions or concerns that you may have that could impact your patient = – CALL OUT
As a teacher, you notice that some students are less participative during discussions. Which communication strategy could help increase student engagement?
Providing opportunities for students to ask questions and share their thoughts
Which of the following is a barrier to effective communication that occurs when the message being communicated is too vague or unclear
Language Barrier
Your part of a diverse healthcare team working on the care of a patient with a lot of comorbidities. To ensure effective communication and avoid misunderstandings, which strategy should you prioritize?
Active listening and seeking clarification when needed.
SEGUE framework
Reviewing the discharge plan and the home exercise program with the patient and his family = End encounter Asking the patient how the accident happened = Elicit information “Good morning, ma’am. I’m Niña, your physical therapist for today.” = Set the stage Acknowledging progress and challenges = Understand patient's perspective
“You said you like dancing. We can incorporate your plan of care with a dance that you like.”
Give information
During the internship, the PT student responds to the CI’s questions with confident and well-structured answers. However, the intern avoids making eye contact and frequently taps their foot nervously. What types of communication are evident in this scenario?
Verbal and nonverbal communication
During a PTR session with a foreign patient and his family, the patient speaks in a formal and measured tone, while the spouse uses informal language and expressive gestures. What types of communication styles are likely to lead to misunderstandings in this scenario?
Verbal, nonverbal, and paraverbal communication
Constructive VS Deconstructive Response to conflict
Withdrawing = Passive Destructive Being flexible = Active constructive Delaying responses = Passive constructive Rushing = Active destructive
Constructive VS Deconstructive response to conflict Being overly self critical
Passive destructive
Two coworkers have differing opinions that have led to a conflict. What communication strategy would be most helpful in resolving this situation?
Engaging in open dialogue, empathetic listening, and finding common ground
When communication is hindered due to differences in values, beliefs, norms, or behaviors between individuals from different backgrounds, it is termed as
Cultural Barrier
Restating experience in a few words, as possible or in a new, yet efficient, manner.
Summarization
Begin with the end in mind
Behavioral objectives
Which of the following is least likely a Motivational hook?
A & B
Never, rarely, sometimes, often, always
Descriptive rubrics
True about Rubrics:
All of the above
Alignment is
All of the above
Has some experience with content and developed some degree of competence, At this point, he can prioritize information & effectively apply the information to a variety of situation.
Competent
A biologist who knows more about a particular type of fungus than anyone else on the planet.
Expert
Patients generate shopping list, confirm financial resources, & access the store.
Authentic activities
Mr. AA with stroke at an outpatient rehabilitation facility preparing for home exercise program.
Learning environment
Used to help learners make progress toward achieving a goal, outcome, or learning objective, and should be a regular part of any learning environment.
Feedback
Clinical instructor sharing with 2nd year PT students when his own clinical decision making related to a prognosis was completely wrong for a patient with a complex medical history, and how he adjusted with future patients
Stories
Visual representation to highlight a given concept and its relationships
B & C
Growth mindset
A & C
Occurs when a clinician uses past experiences to recognize patterns within a patient’s presentation and then uses those patterns to gather additional information to make informed clinical decisions.
B & C
Affective domain:
None of the above
Involves building a foundational knowledge to make a decision
Forwards scaffolding
Scaffolding is
All of the above
Which is a least likely part of the foundational cognitive skills for critical thinkers
All of the above
Chunk content & balance & process time
Information processing
This format refers to a graphic depiction of research results that are presented in a gallery-style format at local, state, and national conferences.
Poster Presentation
The following are non-negotiable components of systematic effective instruction, except:
Skipping learning objectives
In an interprofessional meeting at the hospital, the presenter's slides are cluttered with text, making them hard to read. What issue does this create?
The slides could distract from the speaker's message and overwhelm the audience
TR has been invited to do an introductory lecture in the DPT program from which she graduated 3 years ago. During the intervening years, she worked in the physical therapy department at a large hospital, became certified as a lymphedema specialist, and conducted extensive patient education programs on this topic. TR has planned a 2-hour class on lymphedema and the role of patient education with small group activities, handouts, a PowerPoint presentation, and photographs that demonstrate the outcomes of effective lymphedema treatment. The class does not go as well as she had planned. Students seem overwhelmed, yet ask very few questions. Written evaluations reveal an appreciation for TR’s expertise, but confusion about what they were supposed to have learned. What was the problem in this situation?
She had difficulty determining what is “need to know vs nice to know” because of her excitement to share her expertise
The specific format that you are considering is another factor that may influence your instructional design. The following are types of format, except:
None of the above
What type of presentation format consists of a brief, formal presentation generally accompanied by PowerPoint slides?
Platform presentation
The presenter asked each of the 75 participants to introduce themselves and share why they decided to come to the presentation. The following are potential solutions to this situation:
All of the above
Even the most carefully designed instructional programs may be hindered by the physical environment in which you are presenting. The key is to get to your room early so that you can modify the set-up to optimize the learning environment.
Both statements are correct
Sidebar conversations may be a sign of:
Only A and B
During a team presentation, one member dominates the discussion and doesn't allow others to share their insights. What problem does this behavior create?
Other team members' expertise and perspectives are not utilized, leading to a lack of diversity in the presentation
You are conducting a class with 3rd year PT students. Halfway through the class, you noticed that one student is taking up all the discussion. The following solutions may be implemented:
A and C
You and 4 other people are tasked to present a lecture to 1st year physical therapy students about therapeutic interventions. What can you do to avoid redundancy?
Coordinate with the other speakers so all presentations are aligned
When adding the non-negotiables of systematic effective instruction to your presentation, it is not necessary to include all the components. Good teaching requires good planning.
Only the first statement is true
When adding the non-negotiables of systematic effective instruction to your presentation, it is not necessary to include all the components. Good teaching requires good planning.
Only the first statement is true
These are designed for professionals to provide important information to the community and the lay public about physical therapy and the role of the physical therapist and physical therapist assistant in health care:
Health and fitness fairs
Keys to developing effective presentations
PowerPoint presentation of key points related to increased incidence of people with amputations due to diabetes, motor vehicle accidents, and war injuries = Content Providing a case study for a group of students to work on = Content Booster Pre-test given to senior high school students = Needs Assessment At the end if the seminar, participants will be able to discuss prevalence and causation of below-knee and transfemoral amputations = Learning Objectives
Keys to developing effective presentation
Reviewing 3-4 major key points = Summary Showing pictures of people doing physically challenging tasks (e.g., skiing, sky diving). Ask question: What physical impairment do these people share? = Motivational Hooks Rita presented a 3 hour lecture to the students covering 5 different chapters without allowing the students time to process = Problematic Presentation The presenter was interesting, but went off on numerous tangents, leaving the audience confused about the goal of the presentation = Problematic Presentation
Keys to developing effective presentation
Clashing opinions and feelings of the audiences regarding the topic = Challenging Audience Behaviors The persistent unanswered question = Challenging Audience Behaviors Dr. Almario felt compelled to provide the audience with basic information in great detail despite the fact that the audience was comprised of seasoned physical therapists = Problematic Presentation Sidebar conversations = Challenging Audience Behaviors
The 50-person ice breaker
Challenging Audience Behaviors
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