NCCAP NATIONAL EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Leisure - Correct Answers -Independent use of free time
Recreation - Correct Answers -Activity that refreshes the body or mind - structured or
organized
Continuum of Care - Correct Answers -Levels of care beginning with care and support
at home, care provided in the community such as adult day centers and institutional
care through assisted living and skilled nursing facilities.
Chain of Command - Correct Answers -A clear and distinct line of authority among the
positions in an organization.
Organizational Chart - Correct Answers -A visual picture of the organization that
identifies lines of communication and authority.
True or False: Advocacy is not vital to a business associations survival and growth? -
Correct Answers -False
True or False: When you delegate, you give someone else one of your job tasks; but
you maintain control and responsibility? - Correct Answers -True
True or False: Adult learning principles focus on real world problems? - Correct
Answers -True
True or False: Managers delegate to relieve their workload and to make busy work for
their employees? - Correct Answers -False
Authoirty - Correct Answers -The power and right to make decisions.
Accountability - Correct Answers -To be responsible for something, to have to answer to
an authority.
Responsibility - Correct Answers -A duty that is assigned to an individual or a duty one
accepts.
,Departmentalization - Correct Answers -Basis for grouping of positions into departments
and departments into the organization.
Profession - Correct Answers -An individual with specialized skills and abilities working
in his or her area of experience.
Professionalism - Correct Answers -The qualities or traits that mark a person working in
a particular profession.
Certification - Correct Answers -A credential indicating specific training in a career
specialty. Certification of choice for activity professionals is through NCCAP which is
recognized in many states and Federal regulations.
Professional Organizations - Correct Answers -Nonprofit organization that works to
improve the image, working conditions, and skill levels of people in particular
occupations.
Advocacy - Correct Answers -To act, speak, or write in support of an issue.
Protesting - Correct Answers -To object, complain or disagree with something.
Activism - Correct Answers -The practice of pursuing political or other goals through
vigorous action, often including protests and demonstrations.
Regulatory Requirements - Correct Answers -A rule or directive made and maintained
by an authority. State regulations are in place for nursing homes, medical day care
centers and assisted living. Federal regulations are in place for nursing homes only.
Interpretive Guidelines - Correct Answers -Publication to help nursing facilities follows
the law and aid surveyors to enforce the law.
Survey Process - Correct Answers -Methodology that the state/federal surveyors
practice when inspecting care facilities.
Deficiency - Correct Answers -In LTC, this is something the state surveyors find during
a survey. It means the facility has not met the state or federal standards of care.
Plan of Correction - Correct Answers -This is written by a care facility if a deficiency is
issued. It describes how the care facility will fix the deficiency.
CMS - Correct Answers -Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Federal agency
overseeing skilled nursing facilities.
Life Course Perspective - Correct Answers -How one experiences a timetable of life
events, how society looks upon individual life choices.
, Life Span - Correct Answers -The greatest number of years a person can live.
Theories on Aging - Correct Answers -Various theories as to why we age - two
categories - genetic and wear and tear theories.
Abraham Maslow - Correct Answers -A psychologist who proposed the hierarchy of
needs, with self-actualization as the ultimate psychological need. Humans have a
hierarchy of needs ranging from lower-level needs for survival and safety to higher-level
needs for intellectual achievement and finally self-actualization.
Erik Erikson - Correct Answers -A psychologist who developed the theory involving
eight stages of life. How one responded to life experiences in those stages would mold
personality.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Stages of Grief - Correct Answers -A psychologist who
studied death and dying. Her
theory proposes that the terminally ill pass through a sequence of 5 stages: 1. denial, 2.
anger/resentment, 3. bargaining 4. depression, and 5. Acceptance.
Cohort Effect - Correct Answers -The consequences of having been born in a given
year and having grown up during a particular time period with its own unique pressures,
problems, challenges, and opportunities.
Cumulative Disadvantage - Correct Answers -The idea that the negative effects of
patterns of inequality in wealth, status, and availability of opportunities accumulate over
the life span.
Social Clock - Correct Answers -The culturally preferred timing of social events such as
marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
Social Gerontology - Correct Answers -A subfield of gerontology with an emphasis on
social rather than physical aspects of aging.
Functional Age - Correct Answers -Actual competence and performance of an older
adult, as distinguished from chronological age.
Wellness - Correct Answers -An overall state of well-being or total health.
Palliative Care - Correct Answers -Care provided to those suffering from chronic and
serious illness. Similar to hospice. While hospice is defined for those with less than six
months to live, palliative care has no time frame.
Age Grades - Correct Answers -Permanent age categories in a society through which
people pass during the course of a lifetime.
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Leisure - Correct Answers -Independent use of free time
Recreation - Correct Answers -Activity that refreshes the body or mind - structured or
organized
Continuum of Care - Correct Answers -Levels of care beginning with care and support
at home, care provided in the community such as adult day centers and institutional
care through assisted living and skilled nursing facilities.
Chain of Command - Correct Answers -A clear and distinct line of authority among the
positions in an organization.
Organizational Chart - Correct Answers -A visual picture of the organization that
identifies lines of communication and authority.
True or False: Advocacy is not vital to a business associations survival and growth? -
Correct Answers -False
True or False: When you delegate, you give someone else one of your job tasks; but
you maintain control and responsibility? - Correct Answers -True
True or False: Adult learning principles focus on real world problems? - Correct
Answers -True
True or False: Managers delegate to relieve their workload and to make busy work for
their employees? - Correct Answers -False
Authoirty - Correct Answers -The power and right to make decisions.
Accountability - Correct Answers -To be responsible for something, to have to answer to
an authority.
Responsibility - Correct Answers -A duty that is assigned to an individual or a duty one
accepts.
,Departmentalization - Correct Answers -Basis for grouping of positions into departments
and departments into the organization.
Profession - Correct Answers -An individual with specialized skills and abilities working
in his or her area of experience.
Professionalism - Correct Answers -The qualities or traits that mark a person working in
a particular profession.
Certification - Correct Answers -A credential indicating specific training in a career
specialty. Certification of choice for activity professionals is through NCCAP which is
recognized in many states and Federal regulations.
Professional Organizations - Correct Answers -Nonprofit organization that works to
improve the image, working conditions, and skill levels of people in particular
occupations.
Advocacy - Correct Answers -To act, speak, or write in support of an issue.
Protesting - Correct Answers -To object, complain or disagree with something.
Activism - Correct Answers -The practice of pursuing political or other goals through
vigorous action, often including protests and demonstrations.
Regulatory Requirements - Correct Answers -A rule or directive made and maintained
by an authority. State regulations are in place for nursing homes, medical day care
centers and assisted living. Federal regulations are in place for nursing homes only.
Interpretive Guidelines - Correct Answers -Publication to help nursing facilities follows
the law and aid surveyors to enforce the law.
Survey Process - Correct Answers -Methodology that the state/federal surveyors
practice when inspecting care facilities.
Deficiency - Correct Answers -In LTC, this is something the state surveyors find during
a survey. It means the facility has not met the state or federal standards of care.
Plan of Correction - Correct Answers -This is written by a care facility if a deficiency is
issued. It describes how the care facility will fix the deficiency.
CMS - Correct Answers -Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Federal agency
overseeing skilled nursing facilities.
Life Course Perspective - Correct Answers -How one experiences a timetable of life
events, how society looks upon individual life choices.
, Life Span - Correct Answers -The greatest number of years a person can live.
Theories on Aging - Correct Answers -Various theories as to why we age - two
categories - genetic and wear and tear theories.
Abraham Maslow - Correct Answers -A psychologist who proposed the hierarchy of
needs, with self-actualization as the ultimate psychological need. Humans have a
hierarchy of needs ranging from lower-level needs for survival and safety to higher-level
needs for intellectual achievement and finally self-actualization.
Erik Erikson - Correct Answers -A psychologist who developed the theory involving
eight stages of life. How one responded to life experiences in those stages would mold
personality.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and Stages of Grief - Correct Answers -A psychologist who
studied death and dying. Her
theory proposes that the terminally ill pass through a sequence of 5 stages: 1. denial, 2.
anger/resentment, 3. bargaining 4. depression, and 5. Acceptance.
Cohort Effect - Correct Answers -The consequences of having been born in a given
year and having grown up during a particular time period with its own unique pressures,
problems, challenges, and opportunities.
Cumulative Disadvantage - Correct Answers -The idea that the negative effects of
patterns of inequality in wealth, status, and availability of opportunities accumulate over
the life span.
Social Clock - Correct Answers -The culturally preferred timing of social events such as
marriage, parenthood, and retirement.
Social Gerontology - Correct Answers -A subfield of gerontology with an emphasis on
social rather than physical aspects of aging.
Functional Age - Correct Answers -Actual competence and performance of an older
adult, as distinguished from chronological age.
Wellness - Correct Answers -An overall state of well-being or total health.
Palliative Care - Correct Answers -Care provided to those suffering from chronic and
serious illness. Similar to hospice. While hospice is defined for those with less than six
months to live, palliative care has no time frame.
Age Grades - Correct Answers -Permanent age categories in a society through which
people pass during the course of a lifetime.
