COTA Exam questions to study

COTA Exam questions to study (This is start of Evaluation questions) Question 6: When conducting a structured interview, it is MOST important for the OT practitioner to? - ANS-ask the questions that he or she thinks is pertinent to this patient. Question 10: In screening a child who has been referred to OT, the PRIMARY goal of the OT practitioner is to? - ANS-determine the need for further examination Question 14: An individual who had a stroke is copying a picture of a clock. The drawing appears as a lopsided circle with a flat side on the left. The numbers one through eight are written in a numerical order around the right side of the clock. The hands are correctly drawn on the clock to represent three o'clock. The individual's performance appears to demonstrate? - ANS-left unilateral neglect Question 17: An individual who uses a wheelchair is being discharged from a rehabilitation facility to home. In determining accessibility of the interior home environment, the area the COTA should be MOST concerned with is? - ANS-Steps, width of doorways, and threshold heights Question 18: A women experienced repeated sexual abuse by her father as a child. She now describes her father's abusive actions as being caused by his stress of being fired from a job because of new management. The defense mechanism she is MOST likely to be using is? - ANS-Rationalization Question 21: A supermarket employee with obsessive compulsive disorder takes an hour to stock 24 cans on the shelf. He reports that once he has placed all the cans on the shelf, he removes them all and starts over because "all the labels were not lined up exactly in the same direction." Which of the following methods would MOST effectively evaluate this individual's work performance? - ANS-A functional assessment of work-related skills, such as carrying and opening cartons and shelving items. Question 24: A COTA is scheduled to interview an individual with a head injury about her home environment, and family and child care has an attention span of 10 to 15 minutes, which of the following should the COTA do first? - ANS-Obtain as much information as possible from the chart Question 25: During the interview with the parents of a 3-year old child with mild CP, the OT practitioner learns that the child is regularly fed by his grandmother and does not have any independent feeding skills. The FIRST issue the OT practitioner needs to explore further is? - ANS-The cultural context and family interaction patterns Question 26: A method that an OT practitioner can use to document total finger flexion without recording the measurement in degrees would be to measure the? -