Rehabilitation Science Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Rehabilitation Science is an interdisciplinary field focused on the study of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial recovery across the lifespan. It integrates principles from medicine, physical therapy, occupational therapy, psychology, and biomechanics to understand disability, injury, and chronic conditions. The course emphasizes evidence-based approaches to restoring functional ability, improving quality of life, and promoting participation in daily activities through assessments, interventions, and outcome evaluations. Students will explore the biological, social, and technological factors influencing rehabilitation, as well as emerging trends in research, policy, and practice for supporting individuals with diverse functional needs.
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Human Motor Control 2nd Edition by David A. Rosenbaum
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Researchers in the field of human motor control consider variability of performance in tasks like aiming for a target to be
A) Inevitable
B) Bad and something to avoid at all costs
C) Something that cannot be analyzed
D) Both b and c
Answer: A
Q2) The field of human motor control is concerned with
A) Movement
B) Stability
C) Movement and stability
D) Human motivation
Answer: C
Q3) The study of variability arises mainly in which domain relevant to human motor control?
A) Physics
B) Statistics
C) Engineering
D) Cognitive science
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Core Problems
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Q1) Synergies may help solve the degrees of freedom problem because
A) Synergies rid the body of sins it can commit
B) Synergies are couplings between effectors
C) Synergies are manifested through party games like rubbing the stomach and patting the head
D) None of the above
Answer: B
Q2) Which term is used to describe a change in the way a task is performed depending on what will be done in the near future?
A) Coarticulation
B) Kinematics
C) Kinetics
D) Passive dynamics
Answer: A
Q3) Mirror neurons
A) Are only activated when people see themselves in a mirror
B) Are only activated when people see very shiny surfaces
C) Are only activated when people stroke very smooth, glassy surfaces
D) None of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Physiological Foundations
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Q1) Within the motor cortex
A) Neighboring regions of the body are represented by neighboring regions
B) Some regions of the body are more amply represented than other regions
C) Both a and b
D) Neither force nor direction of movement are represented
Answer: C
Q2) Which of these elements plays a role in the stretch reflex?
A) Muscle spindles
B) Extrafusal muscle fibers
C) Intrafusal muscle fibers
D) All of the above
Answer: D
Q3) Procedural knowledge is illustrated by _________ , whereas declarative knowledge is illustrated by ___________.
A) Knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4, riding a bicycle
B) Not knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4, later knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4
C) Knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4, later not knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4
D) None of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Psychological Foundations
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Q1) A patient whose left and right hippocampus were surgically removed
A) Did not improve on mirror tracing and did not recognize the person who administered the tests
B) Did improve on mirror tracing but did not recognize the person who administered the tests
C) Did improve on mirror tracing and did recognize the person who administered the tests
D) Did not improve on mirror tracing but did recognize the person who administered the tests
Q2) According to the inter-element inhibition theory of sequencing
A) The first response in a sequence inhibits the most other responses in the sequence
B) The last response in a sequence receives the most inhibition of all the responses in the sequence
C) Each response inhibits itself once it is triggered
D) All of the above
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Chapter 5: Walking
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Q1) The same sensory input
A) Has the same effect on locomotion no matter when it is applied during the step cycle, showing that sensory input has no effect on locomotion
B) Has the same effect on locomotion no matter when it is applied during the step cycle, showing that sensory input has an effect on locomotion
C) Has different effects on locomotion depending on when it is applied during the step cycle, showing that sensory input has no effect on locomotion
D) Has different effects on locomotion depending on when it is applied during the step cycle, showing that sensory input has an effect on locomotion
Q2) Which of the following pertains) to motor development?
A) Nerve fibers become myelinated
B) Cortical centers inhibit subcortical centers
C) Development proceeds in a cephalo-caudal head-tail) and proximal-distal medial-peripheral) direction.
D) All of the above
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Chapter 6: Looking
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Q1) Any pair of extra-ocular muscles can work as agonists, promoting motion in a common direction, or as antagonists, promoting motions in opposite directions. The basis for this statement is that
A) The two eyes can exhibit conjugate movements but not disjunctive movements
B) The two eyes can exhibit disjunctive movements but not conjugate movements
C) The two eyes cannot exhibit conjugate movements or disjunctive movements
D) None of the above
Q2) Saccades
A) Are always straight
B) Are always curved
C) Are mostly straight but can be curved when visual targets are moved experimentally while initial saccades are under way
D) Are straight or curved depending on how bright the surroundings are
Q3) Which type of eye movement is disjunctive rather than conjunctive?
A) Saccades
B) Pursuit movements
C) Vergence
D) Nystagmus size
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Chapter 7: Reaching
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Q1) Which two events tend to coincide during reaching and grasping?
A) Maximal finger widening and start of the slow-approach phase
B) Maximal finger widening and end of the slow-approach phase
C) Minimal finger widening and start of the slow-approach phase
D) Minimal finger widening and end of the slow-approach phase
Q2) During infancy, reaching and grasping typically show sensitivity to
A) Size, then distance, then direction
B) Size, then direction, then distance
C) Distance, then direction, then size
D) Direction, then distance, then size
Q3) In tasks involving finger movements, it has been found, even in patients lacking sensory feedback from their fingers, that
A) Distance reproduction is as good as location reproduction
B) Distance reproduction is better than location reproduction
C) Distance reproduction is worse than location reproduction
D) No reproduction is ever possible
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Chapter 8: Drawing and Writing
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Q1) The way people copy simple geometric forms indicates that
A) Semantic factors play a role in copying
B) Strokes are ordered according to rules
C) The ordering of strokes may be indicative of neurological health
D) All of the above
Q2) In the domain of handwriting, "hookers"
A) Hustle their writing
B) Write with larger loops than "non-hookers"
C) Add extra hooks to the letters they produce
D) Tend to hook one hand but not the other when they write
Q3) When moving the hand from one target to another, people tend to
A) Make relatively straight lines and tend to maximize the mean squared rate of change of acceleration
B) Make relatively straight lines and tend to minimize the mean squared rate of change of acceleration
C) Make highly curved lines and tend to maximize the mean squared rate of change of acceleration
D) Make highly curved lines and tend to minimize the mean squared rate of change of acceleration
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Chapter 9: Keyboarding
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Q1) Serial RT tasks have shown that
A) People can learn S-R sequences without conscious awareness
B) People can learn associations between stimulus locations and response locations
C) People can learn associations between stimulus locations and response locations more easily than associations between stimulus locations and fingers for those locations.
D) All of the above
Q2) The control of downbeats in musical performance may, but do not necessarily have to, reflect
A) Simple reactions
B) Choice reactions
C) Hierarchical timekeeping
D) Linear timekeeping
Q3) Simple reaction times are
A) Response times that are easy to understand
B) Response times for tasks that are always simple to explain
C) Response times for tasks for which there is one possible stimulus and one possible response Response times for tasks for which there is more than one possible stimulus and more than one possible response
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Chapter 10: Speaking and Singing
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Q1) Up-down and front-back are important dimensions in speech control because they usefully describe
A) The relation between the position of the tongue body and the consonants that result
B) The relation between the position of the tongue body and the vowels that result
C) The relation between the position of the tongue body and the loudness that results
D) The relation between the position of the tongue body and the pitch that results
Q2) The textbook described a parallel distributed processing system, developed by Jordan, to explain coarticulation. This connectionist system relies on
A) Input units, hidden units, output units, plan units, and state units
B) "Don't care" target values
C) Back-propagation
D) All of the above
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Chapter 11: Smiling
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Q1) As mentioned in the textbook, infants can imitate facial expressions within the first 36 hours of life. Someone might argue, however, that if that were correct, babies wouldn't cry for unexplained reasons. The skeptic might say that babies would always smile when their adoring parents or care-givers smile at them. Hopefully, you would reply that
A) The point of the study was to show what babies mostly do, not what they always do
B) The point of the study was to show what babies can do, not what they mostly or always do
C) The point of the study was to show that only genetically superior babies smile
D) The point of the study was to show that only genetically superior parents smile
Q2) The shortest established duration for a facial expression is A) 2 s
B) 1 s
C) .5 s
D) 40 ms
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Chapter 12: Moving on
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Q1) When individuals pick up and carry an object from one position to another while walking, their handpath trajectories tend to be
A) Simple in extrinsic, spatial coordinates but complex in intrinsic, joint-based coordinates
B) Simple in intrinsic, joint-based spatial coordinates but complex in extrinsic, spatial coordinates.
C) Simple in extrinsic, joint-based coordinates but complex in intrinsic, spatial coordinates.
D) Simple in intrinsic, spatial coordinates but complex in extrinsic, joint-based coordinates.
Q2) The coordinative dynamics of two swinging limbs moved by one person turn out to be
A) Not reflected in the coordinative dynamics of two swinging limbs moved by two people
B) Reflected well in the coordinative dynamics of two swinging limbs moved by two people
C) Coordination dynamics in two people have never been studied.
D) All of the above
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