NEUROSCIENTIFIC BASIS AND PRACTICAL
APPLICATIONS CERTIFICATION ASSESSMENT
2026 TESTED QUESTIONS
◉ behavioral intervention. Answer: change in behavior or stimulus
to see how body structure or physiological functioning is altered
◉ correlation. Answer: extent to which a given body measure varies
with a given behavioral measure
◉ neuroplasticity. Answer: ability of the brain to be changed by the
environment and experience (these changes can occur throughout
the lifetime)
◉ levels of analysis. Answer: examines the nervous system at
different levels: social level, organ level, neural systems level, brain
region level, circuit level, cellular level, synaptic level, and molecular
level (SONBCCSM)
◉ reductionism. Answer: breaks a system down into smaller parts,
in order to understand it
,◉ stroke and alzheimer's. Answer: the two most common
neurological disorders
◉ anxiety and depression. Answer: the two most common
psychiatric disorders
◉ dualism. Answer: view proposed by Descartes that the MIND is
subject only to spiritual interactions while the BODY is subjected
only to material interactions
◉ neurons and glial cells. Answer: the nervous system is comprised
of 2 major cell types
◉ neuron. Answer: basic unit of the nervous system each comprised
of a cell body, receptive extensions (dendrites), and transmitting
extensions (axons)
◉ glial cell. Answer: brain cell that provides structural, nutritional,
and other types of support
◉ synapse. Answer: tiny gap between neurons where information is
passed from one to another
, ◉ input zone. Answer: comprised of dendrites (cellular extensions
that receive information)
◉ integration zone. Answer: cell body integrates information
◉ conduction zone. Answer: comprised of an axon (single extension
from the cell that carries action potentials from the cell body to
other neurons)
◉ output zone. Answer: comprised of AXON TERMINALS that convey
the neurons actively across the synapse to other cells
◉ axon collateral. Answer: branch of an axon from a single neuron
◉ presynaptic membrane. Answer: transmits information from the
presynaptic neuron by releasing neurotransmitters
◉ synaptic cleft. Answer: space between presynaptic and post
synaptic information
◉ post synaptic membrane. Answer: receives information from the
presynaptic neuron
◉ electrical. Answer: anything within a cell
APPLICATIONS CERTIFICATION ASSESSMENT
2026 TESTED QUESTIONS
◉ behavioral intervention. Answer: change in behavior or stimulus
to see how body structure or physiological functioning is altered
◉ correlation. Answer: extent to which a given body measure varies
with a given behavioral measure
◉ neuroplasticity. Answer: ability of the brain to be changed by the
environment and experience (these changes can occur throughout
the lifetime)
◉ levels of analysis. Answer: examines the nervous system at
different levels: social level, organ level, neural systems level, brain
region level, circuit level, cellular level, synaptic level, and molecular
level (SONBCCSM)
◉ reductionism. Answer: breaks a system down into smaller parts,
in order to understand it
,◉ stroke and alzheimer's. Answer: the two most common
neurological disorders
◉ anxiety and depression. Answer: the two most common
psychiatric disorders
◉ dualism. Answer: view proposed by Descartes that the MIND is
subject only to spiritual interactions while the BODY is subjected
only to material interactions
◉ neurons and glial cells. Answer: the nervous system is comprised
of 2 major cell types
◉ neuron. Answer: basic unit of the nervous system each comprised
of a cell body, receptive extensions (dendrites), and transmitting
extensions (axons)
◉ glial cell. Answer: brain cell that provides structural, nutritional,
and other types of support
◉ synapse. Answer: tiny gap between neurons where information is
passed from one to another
, ◉ input zone. Answer: comprised of dendrites (cellular extensions
that receive information)
◉ integration zone. Answer: cell body integrates information
◉ conduction zone. Answer: comprised of an axon (single extension
from the cell that carries action potentials from the cell body to
other neurons)
◉ output zone. Answer: comprised of AXON TERMINALS that convey
the neurons actively across the synapse to other cells
◉ axon collateral. Answer: branch of an axon from a single neuron
◉ presynaptic membrane. Answer: transmits information from the
presynaptic neuron by releasing neurotransmitters
◉ synaptic cleft. Answer: space between presynaptic and post
synaptic information
◉ post synaptic membrane. Answer: receives information from the
presynaptic neuron
◉ electrical. Answer: anything within a cell
