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BCIA Exam Neurofeedback: Demos study
guide Day 1 Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
Question: What similarities do all forms of biofeedback have?
Ans✅ ✅: 1). promotes stronger sense of self
2). Always rewards, never punishes
3). Intertwined with behaviorism: classical and operant
Question: Neal Miller's research in 1959-60 proved what?
Ans✅ ✅: That subjects could alter ANS functions like HRV, blood pressure, and
hand temp through operant conditioning
Question: What research did Richard Caton do in 1875 - biofeedback's
first key event?
Ans✅ ✅: Put electrodes in the brains of animals and showed that changes in the
brain's electrical activity follow mental activity
Question: What research did Hans Berger do in the 1920s?
Ans✅ ✅: Measured the EEG on the human scalp, and was the first to record raw EEG
on paper
Question: What is the "Berger Rhythm"?
Ans✅ ✅: Alpha- 10 hz - first described by him
Question: What did Adrian and Matthews do in the 1930s?
Ans✅ ✅: Replicated Berger's EEG measurements and studied brain wave
entrainment and pioneered the use of the differential amplifier
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Question: What did Jasper propose in 1958
Ans✅ ✅: The International 10-20 system of electrode placement
Question: What was Joseph Kamiya's accomplishment at U Chicago in
1963?
Ans✅ ✅: Trained a volunteer to recognize alpha bursts. Trainee was reinforced for
producing alpha and achieved voluntary control
Question: Barry Sterman in 1967 published what research?
Ans✅ ✅: Cats were trained to increase SMR
Question: Niels Birmbaumer has done what since the 1980s?
Ans✅ ✅: Published multiple papers on the effects of EEG, slow cortical potentials,
and event related potentials related to human behavior and cognition
Question: Eugene Peniston and Paul Kulkosky created which protocol in
1989?
Ans✅ ✅: Alpha theta crossover for PTSD
Question: Joel Lubar in 1995 @ U Tennessee concluded what about
ADHD volunteers?
Ans✅ ✅: Excessive theta and lack of beta are primary neurological landmarks of
ADHD
Question: How might neurofeedback practitioners differ from each
other?
Ans✅ ✅: Some focus on normalizing EEG patterns, typically single channel sites
guided by QEEGs.
Some are more dynamic making global changes in EEG using multiple channels,
emphasizing flexibility and personal growth and peak performance
Many have an eclectic style using a variety of interventions
BCIA Exam Neurofeedback: Demos study
guide Day 1 Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers
Question: What similarities do all forms of biofeedback have?
Ans✅ ✅: 1). promotes stronger sense of self
2). Always rewards, never punishes
3). Intertwined with behaviorism: classical and operant
Question: Neal Miller's research in 1959-60 proved what?
Ans✅ ✅: That subjects could alter ANS functions like HRV, blood pressure, and
hand temp through operant conditioning
Question: What research did Richard Caton do in 1875 - biofeedback's
first key event?
Ans✅ ✅: Put electrodes in the brains of animals and showed that changes in the
brain's electrical activity follow mental activity
Question: What research did Hans Berger do in the 1920s?
Ans✅ ✅: Measured the EEG on the human scalp, and was the first to record raw EEG
on paper
Question: What is the "Berger Rhythm"?
Ans✅ ✅: Alpha- 10 hz - first described by him
Question: What did Adrian and Matthews do in the 1930s?
Ans✅ ✅: Replicated Berger's EEG measurements and studied brain wave
entrainment and pioneered the use of the differential amplifier
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Question: What did Jasper propose in 1958
Ans✅ ✅: The International 10-20 system of electrode placement
Question: What was Joseph Kamiya's accomplishment at U Chicago in
1963?
Ans✅ ✅: Trained a volunteer to recognize alpha bursts. Trainee was reinforced for
producing alpha and achieved voluntary control
Question: Barry Sterman in 1967 published what research?
Ans✅ ✅: Cats were trained to increase SMR
Question: Niels Birmbaumer has done what since the 1980s?
Ans✅ ✅: Published multiple papers on the effects of EEG, slow cortical potentials,
and event related potentials related to human behavior and cognition
Question: Eugene Peniston and Paul Kulkosky created which protocol in
1989?
Ans✅ ✅: Alpha theta crossover for PTSD
Question: Joel Lubar in 1995 @ U Tennessee concluded what about
ADHD volunteers?
Ans✅ ✅: Excessive theta and lack of beta are primary neurological landmarks of
ADHD
Question: How might neurofeedback practitioners differ from each
other?
Ans✅ ✅: Some focus on normalizing EEG patterns, typically single channel sites
guided by QEEGs.
Some are more dynamic making global changes in EEG using multiple channels,
emphasizing flexibility and personal growth and peak performance
Many have an eclectic style using a variety of interventions
