The New Music Therapist's Handbook
- Ch 1 Exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
Alzheimer's disease - ANSWER✔✔-A progressive, degenerative disease with insidious
onset, characterized by multiple cognitive deficits and significant decline in functioning.
Attention Deficit Disorder - ANSWER✔✔-A disorder characterized by maladaptive
inattention, hyperactivity, or impulsiveness which results in pervasive and clinically
significant impariment. Some symptoms should have presented before seven years of
age, although it may be diagnosed in adulthood.
Auditory Discrimination - ANSWER✔✔-The ability to hear similarities and differences
between sounds.
Auditory memory - ANSWER✔✔-The ability to retain and recall that which is heard.
Auditory-motor match - ANSWER✔✔-The process whereby awareness of sound results
in a movement or response.
, Autistic - ANSWER✔✔-An individual with austistic disorder, beginning in nfancy,
which is characterized by self-absorption, preoccupation with inanimate objects, and/or
dysfunctional, destructive, or ritualistic behaviors.
Individuals who display these characteristics later in life are also sometimes diagnosed
as autistic. Autistic disorder is a type of pervasive developmental disorder.
Behavioral Disorder - ANSWER✔✔-A problem in social behavior which is sufficiently
extreme as to interfere with the learning process.
Cerebral Palsy - ANSWER✔✔-A series of disorders characterized by problems in
movement, posture, and loss of voluntary muscle control, which are caused by brain
injury early in life.
Communication Disorder - ANSWER✔✔-A disability which is characterized by the
inability to transfer thought through speech, written word, or body gestures.
Conduct Disorder - ANSWER✔✔-A persistent pattern of behavior characterized by the
breaking of social norms, including serious violations, aggression, destruction, or
deceitfulness.
Dementia - ANSWER✔✔-A set of symptoms characterized by deterioration in cognitive
functioning, particularly memory, abstract thinking, judgement, and problem solving.
Developmental Disability - ANSWER✔✔-A disorder originating before the age of 18
which constitutes a substantial handicap and continues indefinitely. The disabilities
- Ch 1 Exam 2025 Questions and
Answers
Alzheimer's disease - ANSWER✔✔-A progressive, degenerative disease with insidious
onset, characterized by multiple cognitive deficits and significant decline in functioning.
Attention Deficit Disorder - ANSWER✔✔-A disorder characterized by maladaptive
inattention, hyperactivity, or impulsiveness which results in pervasive and clinically
significant impariment. Some symptoms should have presented before seven years of
age, although it may be diagnosed in adulthood.
Auditory Discrimination - ANSWER✔✔-The ability to hear similarities and differences
between sounds.
Auditory memory - ANSWER✔✔-The ability to retain and recall that which is heard.
Auditory-motor match - ANSWER✔✔-The process whereby awareness of sound results
in a movement or response.
, Autistic - ANSWER✔✔-An individual with austistic disorder, beginning in nfancy,
which is characterized by self-absorption, preoccupation with inanimate objects, and/or
dysfunctional, destructive, or ritualistic behaviors.
Individuals who display these characteristics later in life are also sometimes diagnosed
as autistic. Autistic disorder is a type of pervasive developmental disorder.
Behavioral Disorder - ANSWER✔✔-A problem in social behavior which is sufficiently
extreme as to interfere with the learning process.
Cerebral Palsy - ANSWER✔✔-A series of disorders characterized by problems in
movement, posture, and loss of voluntary muscle control, which are caused by brain
injury early in life.
Communication Disorder - ANSWER✔✔-A disability which is characterized by the
inability to transfer thought through speech, written word, or body gestures.
Conduct Disorder - ANSWER✔✔-A persistent pattern of behavior characterized by the
breaking of social norms, including serious violations, aggression, destruction, or
deceitfulness.
Dementia - ANSWER✔✔-A set of symptoms characterized by deterioration in cognitive
functioning, particularly memory, abstract thinking, judgement, and problem solving.
Developmental Disability - ANSWER✔✔-A disorder originating before the age of 18
which constitutes a substantial handicap and continues indefinitely. The disabilities
