UPDATED 2024/2025 NBCOT PRACTICE EXAM 1 VERIFIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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An OT is preparing to evaluate a toddler who has upper extremity orthopedic concerns. How will the OT MOST likely obtain the majority of initial assessment data?
A. Measurement tools that assess visual-motor skills
B. Dynamometer and pinch meter readings.
C. Observation of child during activit...
NBCOT PRACTICE EXAM 1 2024 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
An OT is preparing to evaluate a toddler who has upper extremity orthopedic
concerns. How will the OT MOST likely obtain the majority of initial
assessment data?
A. Measurement tools that assess visual-motor skills
B. Dynamometer and pinch meter readings.
C. Observation of child during activities in the child-care center.
D. Functional independence measures. - CORRECT ANSWER C.
Observation of child during activities in the child-care center.
Through observation of the child during child-care center activities, the OT
can collect information about the child's motor performance skills and
participation in activities that require upper extremity/hand skill.
Naturalistic observation is a method of ecological assessment, which is "a
primary mechanism for obtaining data relevant to the child's performance
context..... Skilled observation of child performing a functional task offers.....
important information about the child's performance". Answers A, B, ad D
are all appropriate choices after the child is old enough for these
assessments.
During an initial evaluation, the OT suspects that a child has
somatodyspraxia. In what area should the OT focus the evaluation?
,NBCOT PRACTICE EXAM 1 2024 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
A. Ability to print or write.
B. Reading competency.
C. Math calculations.
D. New motor task planning. - CORRECT ANSWER D. New motor task
planning.
"Somatodyspraxia is described as a deficit in learning new motor skills,
planning new motor actions, and generalizing motor plans." Inability to print
or write (answer A) is termed "dysgraphia." The term "dyslexia" (answer B)
means dysfunction in reading. Inability to perform mathematics (answer C)
is known as "dyscalculia"
An OT working in a long-term care facility needs to evaluate the long-term
memory of a resident. Which of the following methods is BEST for evaluating
memory or personally experienced events (declarative memory)?
A. Show the person a series of objects and ask him to recall the objects within
60 seconds.
B. Ask the individual how he spent New Year's/
C. Have the individual state the place, date, and time.
, NBCOT PRACTICE EXAM 1 2024 VERIFIED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
D. Ask the client to remember to bring a specific item to the next therapy
session - CORRECT ANSWER B Ask the individual how he spent New
Year's
"Declarative memory is one aspect of long term memory and includes
conscious memory for events, knowledge or facts". It is commonly assessed
through verbal interviews and informal testing such as asking a question
about an individual's recall of personal events (answer B). Working memory
refers to "the temporary storage of inforamtion while one is working with it
or attending to it" (answer A). "Prospective memory involves the ability to
remember intentions or activities that will be required in the future" (answer
D). Knowing the date, place, and time is indicative of orientation (answer C).
A child avoids playground equipment that requires her feet to be off the
ground. What does this behavior MOST likely indicate?
A. Difficulty modulating proprioception.
B. Somatodyspraxia
C. Gravitational insecurity
D. Bilateral integration/sequencing deficit. - CORRECT ANSWER C.
Gravitational insecurity.
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