Advantages of a Fluoride Needs Assessment Include

question 40

Multiple Choice

Advantages of a fluoride needs assessment include:

• A)"standardization" of patient fluoride therapies.
• B)allowing the dentist to more accurately determine the appropriate fluoride therapy.
• C)modification of community water fluoridation to meet individual patient needs.
• D)elimination of dietary fluoride.

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Definitions:

Frequency of Association

A concept in psychology referring to how often two ideas, words, or concepts are linked together in a person's memory, affecting the ease of recall or recognition.

Encoding Specificity

The principle that recall is more effective if the context at the time of encoding matches the context at the time of retrieval.

Cognitive Economy

A principle in cognitive psychology that suggests the brain strives to simplify information processing by using the most efficient and simplest ways to understand and process information.

Spreading Activation

A theory in cognitive psychology that suggests ideas in memory are connected and that the activation of one idea can trigger the activation of related ideas.