CPMA STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which of the following is MOST LIKELY to teach social skills to a group of at-risk youth?
a. Bingo
b. Volleyball, because it involves cooperation and competition
c. role plays of asking someone for assistance
d. discussion of appropriate leisure skills in a variety of situations - (answer)C
When using behavior modification with a female child who is emotionally disturbed, the CTRS teaches
her separate hygiene behaviors and then combines them together in a morning wake up routine. What
behavior modification technique is this called?
a. shaping
b. modeling
c. extinction
d. chaining - (answer)D
A TR facilitation technique that focuses on taste, touch, sight, smell, hearing, and bodily movement, and
is often combined with reminiscence and remotivation is called:
a. sensory overload
b. aromatherapy
c. sensory stimulation
d. sensory integration - (answer)C
CTRS is working with teens in a psychiatric inpatient program that is oriented toward Fruedian
psychology. One of the activities the CTRS would recommend for the clients based on "sublimation of
sexual urges" is:
a. crafts
b. a dance
c. gymnastics
d. tennis - (answer)B
,CPMA STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which of the following is the LEAST likely way for a CTRS to improve her continuing professional
competence?
a. attend hospital grand rounds
b. present in-service training sessions to her colleagues
c. read brochures about services at similar facilities
d. attend national conferences - (answer)C
The best direct way to promote the value of TR within a facility is to
a. provide in-service trainings to other disciplines
b. attend hospital grand rounds
c. create and post an activity calendar on the unit
d. create a multidisciplinary assessment - (answer)A
Client A is displaying what type of behavior:
During a discussion on the value of leisure, Client A said, "We need to change topics. I don't like this one.
I think it's for sissies like the rest of you guys."
a. assertive
b. nonassertive (passive)
c. aggressive
d. noncommittal - (answer)C
Managed cared has shifted the responsibility of determining the services a patient needs from the
providers of services to the
a. state governments
b. payers of service
c. patient
d. middle class - (answer)B
, CPMA STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which best represents the theory of recreation substitutability?
a. the activity does not matter, it's the experience that occurs
b. the second string squad often plays as well as the first string squad
c. unable to do one activity, the person chooses another that provides similar satisfactions and benefits
d. there is no substitute for a person's favorite leisure activity to it must always be available - (answer)C
One of the most important ways in which CTRSs help clients develop independent and satisfying leisure
lifestyles is by teaching them
a. as many leisure lifestyles as possible
b. how to make positive leisure choices for self-involvement
c. how to access public transportation and leisure facilities
d. the concepts of self-determination and intrinsic motivation - (answer)B
The Comprehensive Evaluation in Recreation Therapy- Physical Disabilities (CERT-PD) measures which of
the following sensory abilities EXCEPT
a. visual acuity
b. ocular pursuit
c. depth perception
d. taste perception - (answer)D
Title II in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (and later amendments) concerns discrimination
with regard to
a. recreation services and facilities
b. employment
c. education
d. both physical and programmatic access - (answer)D
Which of the following is MOST LIKELY to teach social skills to a group of at-risk youth?
a. Bingo
b. Volleyball, because it involves cooperation and competition
c. role plays of asking someone for assistance
d. discussion of appropriate leisure skills in a variety of situations - (answer)C
When using behavior modification with a female child who is emotionally disturbed, the CTRS teaches
her separate hygiene behaviors and then combines them together in a morning wake up routine. What
behavior modification technique is this called?
a. shaping
b. modeling
c. extinction
d. chaining - (answer)D
A TR facilitation technique that focuses on taste, touch, sight, smell, hearing, and bodily movement, and
is often combined with reminiscence and remotivation is called:
a. sensory overload
b. aromatherapy
c. sensory stimulation
d. sensory integration - (answer)C
CTRS is working with teens in a psychiatric inpatient program that is oriented toward Fruedian
psychology. One of the activities the CTRS would recommend for the clients based on "sublimation of
sexual urges" is:
a. crafts
b. a dance
c. gymnastics
d. tennis - (answer)B
,CPMA STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which of the following is the LEAST likely way for a CTRS to improve her continuing professional
competence?
a. attend hospital grand rounds
b. present in-service training sessions to her colleagues
c. read brochures about services at similar facilities
d. attend national conferences - (answer)C
The best direct way to promote the value of TR within a facility is to
a. provide in-service trainings to other disciplines
b. attend hospital grand rounds
c. create and post an activity calendar on the unit
d. create a multidisciplinary assessment - (answer)A
Client A is displaying what type of behavior:
During a discussion on the value of leisure, Client A said, "We need to change topics. I don't like this one.
I think it's for sissies like the rest of you guys."
a. assertive
b. nonassertive (passive)
c. aggressive
d. noncommittal - (answer)C
Managed cared has shifted the responsibility of determining the services a patient needs from the
providers of services to the
a. state governments
b. payers of service
c. patient
d. middle class - (answer)B
, CPMA STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Which best represents the theory of recreation substitutability?
a. the activity does not matter, it's the experience that occurs
b. the second string squad often plays as well as the first string squad
c. unable to do one activity, the person chooses another that provides similar satisfactions and benefits
d. there is no substitute for a person's favorite leisure activity to it must always be available - (answer)C
One of the most important ways in which CTRSs help clients develop independent and satisfying leisure
lifestyles is by teaching them
a. as many leisure lifestyles as possible
b. how to make positive leisure choices for self-involvement
c. how to access public transportation and leisure facilities
d. the concepts of self-determination and intrinsic motivation - (answer)B
The Comprehensive Evaluation in Recreation Therapy- Physical Disabilities (CERT-PD) measures which of
the following sensory abilities EXCEPT
a. visual acuity
b. ocular pursuit
c. depth perception
d. taste perception - (answer)D
Title II in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (and later amendments) concerns discrimination
with regard to
a. recreation services and facilities
b. employment
c. education
d. both physical and programmatic access - (answer)D
