Chapter 8: Leading Group Fitness Classes Flashcards
True or False: Aerobic Q-signs are best
suited for visual learners.
True
Educating participants on how the squat translates to their daily routine addresses which of the following learning domains?
a. Cognitive
b. Psychomotor
c. Autonomous
d. Affective
a. Cognitive
A GFI has students do 4 grapevines followed by 8 hamstring curls. Next, they do 2 grapevines followed by 4 hamstring curls. This is an example of which teaching strategy?
a. Simple-to-complex
b. Repetition-reduction
c. Slow-to-fast
d. Part-to-whole
b. Repetition-reduction
A GFI is introducing a grapevine for the first time. She moves more slowly using counts of music instead of 8 counts. This is an example of which teaching strategy?
a. Simple-to-complex
b. Repetition-reduction
c. Slow-to-fast
d. Part-to-whole
c. Slow-to-fast
A GFI points to the direction that matches the cued words. This type of cueing is best suited for which type of learner?
a. kinesthetic
b. visual
c. verbal
b. visual
True or false: GFIs should avoid providing verbal cues during certain movements, including when performing push-ups.
True
A GFI teaches sections of a move, followed by the performance of an isolated movement. Finally, the GFI teaches how to combine the movements. This is an example of which teaching strategy?
a. Simple-to-complex
b. Repetition-reduction
c. Slow-to-fast
d. Part-to-whole
d. Part-to-whole teaching strategy aka add-in strategy
True or false: “Go this way” is an effective
cue for verbal learners.
False because it is not specific. It doesn’t say which way to go.
A group fitness instructor teaches proper squatting technique to their class participants. Next, they incorporate dumbbells to add a curl and then press to end the sequence. Which type of teaching strategy are they using?
a. Simple-to-complex
b. Repetition-reduction
c. Slow-to-fast
d. Part-to-whole
d. Part-to-whole teaching strategy
A group of participants who are able to grapevine back and forth with the music and concentrate on occasional cues from the GFI are in the _______ stage of learning.
a. Cognitive
b. Psychomotor
c. Autonomous
d. Associative
d. Associative
How should a group fitness instructor best address a verbal learner while teaching a sequence?
a. Have the participants count out loud with you
b. Add encouragement as the sequence progresses
c. Call out the number of repetitions
d. Clap the numerical cues instead of signing them
c. Call out the number of repetitions
The information displayed on the electronic consoles of equipment such as rowers and treadmills can be important when teaching using which style of learning?
a. command style
b. practice style
c. self-check style
d. mirroring
c. self-check style
Instructing a participant to “not allow the shoulders to collapse inward” could have been positively cued as “stand up tall and widen your shoulders to open your chest.” This is an example of a correct _______ cue?
a. Motivational
b. Alignment
c. Directional
d. Spatial
b. Alignment
An instructor using which style of learning makes all decisions about posture, rhythm, and duration.
a. command style
b. practice style
c. self-check style
d. mirroring
a. command style
Involves emotional behaviors, beliefs, and attitudes?
a. associative
b. autonomous
c. affective
d. psychomotor
c. affective
Participants who perform exercises with a number of movement errors or improper form are most likely in which stage of learning?
a. associative
b. autonomous
c. affective
d. cognitive
d. cognitive
Preparing choreography utilizing the technique in which an instructor faces the participants and the participants copy the exact movement and direction is known as __________.
a. Regression
b. Progression
c. Q-signs
d. Mirroring
d. Mirroring
Refers to those activities requiring movement a, associative b. autonomous c. affective d. psychomotor
d. psychomotor
The stage of learning a motor skill when performers have mastered the fundamentals and can concentrate on skill refinement? a. associative b. autonomous c. affective d. cognitive
b. autonomous