NCTRC EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Critical Pathway - Correct Answers -Compilation of multidisciplinary input driven by a
specific time-oriented outcome
Shaping - Correct Answers -The behavior modification process that uses successive
approximations of a desired terminal behavior
Behavior Management Programs - Correct Answers -Cognitive Restructuring,
Backwards Chaining, Aversion Therapy
3 Goals of Cognitive Retraining - Correct Answers -Social Skills, Problem-Solving Skills,
Short-term memory
Criterion - Correct Answers -The indication that the objective has been achieved;
delineates the exact amounts and nature of the behavior that can be taken as evidence
that the objective has been met. A criterion is a precise statement or standard that
allows individuals to make judgments based on the observable, measurable behavior
Form of exercise that will MOST likely increase bone mass in an older adult with
osteoporosis - Correct Answers -Walking
Cognitive Restructuring - Correct Answers -Changing maladaptive behavior by
demonstrating the irrationality of the assumptions on which the behavior is based and
teaching the person more adaptive self-talk
Backward Chaining - Correct Answers -Instruction starts with the last step in a
sequence and when the client has acquired the last step, the next to last step is taught
and so on until the first task in the chain is accomplished.
Aversion Therapy - Correct Answers -Developing an aversion to a stimulus by pairing
that stimulus with vividly imagined noxious stimuli
Stages of Group Development - Correct Answers -Forming, Storming, Norming,
Performing
Forming - Correct Answers -...
ANSWERS
Critical Pathway - Correct Answers -Compilation of multidisciplinary input driven by a
specific time-oriented outcome
Shaping - Correct Answers -The behavior modification process that uses successive
approximations of a desired terminal behavior
Behavior Management Programs - Correct Answers -Cognitive Restructuring,
Backwards Chaining, Aversion Therapy
3 Goals of Cognitive Retraining - Correct Answers -Social Skills, Problem-Solving Skills,
Short-term memory
Criterion - Correct Answers -The indication that the objective has been achieved;
delineates the exact amounts and nature of the behavior that can be taken as evidence
that the objective has been met. A criterion is a precise statement or standard that
allows individuals to make judgments based on the observable, measurable behavior
Form of exercise that will MOST likely increase bone mass in an older adult with
osteoporosis - Correct Answers -Walking
Cognitive Restructuring - Correct Answers -Changing maladaptive behavior by
demonstrating the irrationality of the assumptions on which the behavior is based and
teaching the person more adaptive self-talk
Backward Chaining - Correct Answers -Instruction starts with the last step in a
sequence and when the client has acquired the last step, the next to last step is taught
and so on until the first task in the chain is accomplished.
Aversion Therapy - Correct Answers -Developing an aversion to a stimulus by pairing
that stimulus with vividly imagined noxious stimuli
Stages of Group Development - Correct Answers -Forming, Storming, Norming,
Performing
Forming - Correct Answers -...
