BCN Questions and answers 100% Correct
Who was the first to record EEG in humans?
Hans Berg
EEG biofeedback is employed to modify the electrical activity of which nervous system?
Central
Joe Kamiya's work was focused on training which frequency band?
Alpha
Barbara Brown tra...
BCN Questions and answers 100%
Correct
Who was the first to record EEG in humans? - answer Hans Berg
EEG biofeedback is employed to modify the electrical activity of which nervous system?
- answer Central
Joe Kamiya's work was focused on training which frequency band? - answer Alpha
Barbara Brown trained subjects in which type of biofeedback? - answer Visual
Neil Miller's work with animals demonstrated the operant conditioning of what? - answer
Internal, autonomically regulated physiological processes
*blood pressure
*cardiac function
*intestinal activity
Barry Sterman's research with cats led to the first clinical application of neurofeedback
for which disorder? - answer Seizures
What is another name for the sensory strip? - answer The central strip
Who is credited with the development of alpha-theta training? - answer Elmer and
Alyce Green
The Peniston-Kulkosky protocol involved temperature training and what type of EEG-
biofeedback? - answer Alpha-theta
Joel Lubar took the word of Barry Sterman with seizure patients and expanded it to
people with what? - answer ADHD
Loreta refers to an algorithm estimate of what? - answer The location of underlying
brain generators
Sue and Siegfried Othmer's approach to neurofeedback is called what? - answer
Infra-low frequency training
In classical Pavlovian condition a conditioned stimulus is paired with what? - answer
A neutral stimulus
, During the instrumental or operant conditioning, a behavior is reinforced in order to do
what? - answer Increase the behavior
Shaping is defined as what? - answer An operant procedure where successive
approximations toward a final desired behavior are reinforced
Long-term potentiation at the synaptic level is facilitated by what? - answer Operant
conditioning
Negative reinforcement involves what? - answer Escaping a negative consequence
Long-term potentiation is defined as a persistent what? - answer Strengthening of
synapses
What training factors can affect the brain's response to the training? - answer
Frequency of training, length of training, and challenge or demand of training
Who was the first to show that humans were able to self-regulate brainwave activity? -
answer Kamiya
What assumption is most relevant to feedback on control of biological systems? -
answer Everyone has an individual stress response
What part of the brain is most associated with emotional response? - answer
Amygdala
Which area of the brain is where the stress response is thought to be turned off? -
answer Hippocampus
Regulation of the stress response is forced to occur mainly in what area? - answer
Parietal lobes
The autonomic nervous system is comprised of what? - answer Sympathetic and
parasympathetic branches
Is the male brain heavier or lighter than the female brain? - answer Heavier
What are the two basic types of brain cells? - answer Neurons (primary signaling)
and glia cells (support neurons)
Brain information travels up to what speed? - answer 268 miles per hour
The three pathway units in a neuron are what? - answer Axon, dendrite, myelin
sheath
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