ACBIS STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | ACBIS CERTIFICATION EXAM REVIEW
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Diffuse Axonal Injury - correct answer ✔✔Delicate nerve tissues rip, tear, and stretch
Hematoma - correct answer ✔✔Accumulation of blood, causing pressure
Hydrocephalus - correct answer ✔✔Blockage of CSF, causing pressure
Anoxia - correct answer ✔✔Stop in oxygen getting to the brain
Hypoxia - correct answer ✔✔Decreased amount of oxygen getting to the brain
Hemorrhages - correct answer ✔✔Major bleeding from when the brain rubs against the inside
of the skull
Coup- Contracoup - correct answer ✔✔Effect when the back of the head is struck and the front
of the brain is injured by the brain bouncing back and forth.
A-B-C data - correct answer ✔✔"A" stands for antededents to the behavior. "B" is for the
behavior. "C" is for the consequences to the behavior. A-B-C data collects information, not only
on the unwanted behavior, but also on what immediately precedes and follows the behavior.
Absence seizures - correct answer ✔✔Formerly known as petit mal, there is transient loss of
consciousness. Person may cease physical movement, have loss of attention or stare vacantly,
neither speaking not apparently hearing what is said. May be excessive eye blinking, staring, or
chewing movements. May be so brief that may not be recognized.
,Acquired Brain Injury - correct answer ✔✔An injury to the brain occurring after birth that is not
hereditary, congenital or degenerative; does not refer to brain injuries induced by birth trauma.
Acitive Treatment interaction - correct answer ✔✔Very broad concept that avoids caring for a
person in a custodial sense or behaving in ways that are likely to increase dependency within
the relationship. The term implies directed action, teaching, and a certain degree of risk taking.
ADA - correct answer ✔✔Americans with Disability Act
Administrative Law - correct answer ✔✔Law that is created by administrative agencees, such as
the Dept. of Health and Human Services, Congress or the state legislature. Administrative law
authorizes an agency to create laws knows as rules or regulations.
Advanced Directive - correct answer ✔✔Terms used for a living will.
Akathisia - correct answer ✔✔Inability to sit or stand still; motor restlessness.
Akinesia - correct answer ✔✔Slowness and loss of movement.
Americans with Disabilities Act - correct answer ✔✔Known as the ADA, its purpose is to
eliminate discrimination on the basis of the disability in the full and equal enjoyments of the
goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accomodations of any place of public
accomodation by any person who owns, leases, or operates a place of public accomodation.
Amygdala - correct answer ✔✔Close to the hippocampus, the amygdala is a "Fight or Flight"
structure closely tied with emotional memories and reactions.
Anosognosia - correct answer ✔✔Lack of awareness of deficits
, Anoxic - correct answer ✔✔Lack of oxygen
Anxiolytics - correct answer ✔✔Anti-anxiety medications
Aphasia - correct answer ✔✔Difficulty understanding speech and/or difficulty expressing
thoughts
Apraxia - correct answer ✔✔Inability to conduct purposeful movement
Arachnoid - correct answer ✔✔Like a spiderweb that bridges the brain's many wrinkles and
folds.
Arousal - correct answer ✔✔General state of readiness of an individual to process sensory
information and/or organize a response
Aspiration - correct answer ✔✔Inhalation of foods, liquids or vomitus into the lungs
Ataxia - correct answer ✔✔Impaired ability to coordinate movement
Atrophy - correct answer ✔✔Wasting of size or functional activity
Axon - correct answer ✔✔A long 'slim wire' in the neuron that transmits signals from one cell
body to another via junctions known as synapses
Basal Ganglia - correct answer ✔✔Four nerve clusters of the basal ganglia or "Nerve Knots" help
handle physical movements by relaying information from the cerebral cortex to the brainstem
and cerebellem.
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Diffuse Axonal Injury - correct answer ✔✔Delicate nerve tissues rip, tear, and stretch
Hematoma - correct answer ✔✔Accumulation of blood, causing pressure
Hydrocephalus - correct answer ✔✔Blockage of CSF, causing pressure
Anoxia - correct answer ✔✔Stop in oxygen getting to the brain
Hypoxia - correct answer ✔✔Decreased amount of oxygen getting to the brain
Hemorrhages - correct answer ✔✔Major bleeding from when the brain rubs against the inside
of the skull
Coup- Contracoup - correct answer ✔✔Effect when the back of the head is struck and the front
of the brain is injured by the brain bouncing back and forth.
A-B-C data - correct answer ✔✔"A" stands for antededents to the behavior. "B" is for the
behavior. "C" is for the consequences to the behavior. A-B-C data collects information, not only
on the unwanted behavior, but also on what immediately precedes and follows the behavior.
Absence seizures - correct answer ✔✔Formerly known as petit mal, there is transient loss of
consciousness. Person may cease physical movement, have loss of attention or stare vacantly,
neither speaking not apparently hearing what is said. May be excessive eye blinking, staring, or
chewing movements. May be so brief that may not be recognized.
,Acquired Brain Injury - correct answer ✔✔An injury to the brain occurring after birth that is not
hereditary, congenital or degenerative; does not refer to brain injuries induced by birth trauma.
Acitive Treatment interaction - correct answer ✔✔Very broad concept that avoids caring for a
person in a custodial sense or behaving in ways that are likely to increase dependency within
the relationship. The term implies directed action, teaching, and a certain degree of risk taking.
ADA - correct answer ✔✔Americans with Disability Act
Administrative Law - correct answer ✔✔Law that is created by administrative agencees, such as
the Dept. of Health and Human Services, Congress or the state legislature. Administrative law
authorizes an agency to create laws knows as rules or regulations.
Advanced Directive - correct answer ✔✔Terms used for a living will.
Akathisia - correct answer ✔✔Inability to sit or stand still; motor restlessness.
Akinesia - correct answer ✔✔Slowness and loss of movement.
Americans with Disabilities Act - correct answer ✔✔Known as the ADA, its purpose is to
eliminate discrimination on the basis of the disability in the full and equal enjoyments of the
goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accomodations of any place of public
accomodation by any person who owns, leases, or operates a place of public accomodation.
Amygdala - correct answer ✔✔Close to the hippocampus, the amygdala is a "Fight or Flight"
structure closely tied with emotional memories and reactions.
Anosognosia - correct answer ✔✔Lack of awareness of deficits
, Anoxic - correct answer ✔✔Lack of oxygen
Anxiolytics - correct answer ✔✔Anti-anxiety medications
Aphasia - correct answer ✔✔Difficulty understanding speech and/or difficulty expressing
thoughts
Apraxia - correct answer ✔✔Inability to conduct purposeful movement
Arachnoid - correct answer ✔✔Like a spiderweb that bridges the brain's many wrinkles and
folds.
Arousal - correct answer ✔✔General state of readiness of an individual to process sensory
information and/or organize a response
Aspiration - correct answer ✔✔Inhalation of foods, liquids or vomitus into the lungs
Ataxia - correct answer ✔✔Impaired ability to coordinate movement
Atrophy - correct answer ✔✔Wasting of size or functional activity
Axon - correct answer ✔✔A long 'slim wire' in the neuron that transmits signals from one cell
body to another via junctions known as synapses
Basal Ganglia - correct answer ✔✔Four nerve clusters of the basal ganglia or "Nerve Knots" help
handle physical movements by relaying information from the cerebral cortex to the brainstem
and cerebellem.
