Alpha Lesson Check

Which part of the cerebral cortex gives the strongest signals of Alpha wave activity?

A.) Temporal lobe
B.) Occipital lobe
C.) Frontal lobe
D.) Parietal lobe

2. Alpha plays a key role in which functional processes?

A.) Attention
B.) Emotional processing
C.) Semantic memory
D.) Both A and C

3. (T/F) Alpha power increases in brain regions relevant to a given attentional task and decreases in regions that are not involved in the task.

A.) True
B.) False

4. Which of the following statements about Alpha 1 are true? (select all that apply):

A.) Frontal and posterior Alpha 1 support an internalized focus.
B.) Alpha 1 is more related to attentional demands than Alpha 2.
C.) Alpha 1 is associated with semantic memory retrieval.
D.) Alpha 1 supports top-down modulation of irrelevant sensory information in Body Scan meditations.

5. Frontal Alpha 1 is rewarded in Quiet Mind meditations and Transcendental Meditation in order to:

A.) Maintain a focused concentration
B.) Inhibit emotional processing
C.) Support an internally engaged, effortful state of consciousness
D.) Promote a witness consciousness that may transcend its own procedures

6. (T/F) In Body Scan meditations, Alpha 1 decreases in somatosensory regions that are involved in the center of one’s focus and increases elsewhere.

A.) True
B.) False

7. Frontal Alpha asymmetry protocols aim to decrease negative emotions and increase positive ones by (select all that apply):

A.) Increasing left frontal Alpha activity.
B.) Decreasing left frontal Alpha activity.
C.) Increasing right frontal Alpha activity.
D.) Decreasing right frontal Alpha activity.

8. Posterior Alpha 1 supports Focus and OM (Open Monitoring) meditations by:

A.) Suppressing sensory processing of the outside world.
B.) Inhibiting executive decision-making.
C.) Increasing information processing in sensory regions.
D.) Trick question—posterior Alpha 1 does not support Focus and OM meditations.

9. (T/F) Frontal Alpha 1, which promotes non-reactivity to thoughts and emotions, supports OM (Open Monitoring) meditations by inhibiting executive decision-making.

A.) True
B.) False

10. Which of the following statements about Alpha’s role in creativity are true (select all that apply)?

A.) Alpha links the conscious and subconscious mind.
B.) Alpha 1 provides a relaxed, broad, witness consciousness that allows for greater ﬂexibility and efﬁciency in addressing complex concepts.
C.) Alpha 2 supports creativity by facilitating the retrieval of semantic memories that can be reassembled into new insights.
D.) Alpha generally promotes high levels of cortical activation that support the encoding of new information.

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