Quiz #1: chapters 1,2, & 3

Question 1

Morbidity

Answer 1

The regular occurrence of a particular disease

Question 2

Mortality

Answer 2

Rate of death

Question 3

Sedentary Lifestyle

Answer 3

A lifestyle in which regular exercise does not take place

Question 4

Aerobic

Answer 4

running/ swimming (plato)

Question 5

Anarobic

Answer 5

Heart rate goes up and down

Question 6

Sport & Athletic Competition

Answer 6

Important culture & society
All age groups can participate
Successful performance in based on principles grounded in exercise science
Gap between female & male athlete are closing

Question 7

Physical Activity

Answer 7

Movement activities of daily living, including work- and job- related activities, leisure - time activities, and activities performed around home

Question 8

Exercise

Answer 8

A structured movement process that individuals consciously and voluntarily engage in and includes those activities that improve or maintain physical health

Question 9

Sport & Athletic Competition

Answer 9

Movement in structured and organized activities that include a competitive aspect, including athletic events

Question 10

Exercise Science

Answer 10

An umbrella term used to describe the study of numerous aspects of physical exercise, activity, sport, and athletic performance
Common Characteristics: movement of body & adaptations to movement

Question 11

ADL

Answer 11

activities of daily living

Question 12

Whole-istic approach

Answer 12

everything is connected

Question 13

Basic research

Answer 13

research that expand the knowledge base by formulating, evaluating, or expanding a theory

Question 14

Applied research

Answer 14

attempts to solve immediate practical problems, often uses the same methods as basic research

Question 15

Translational research

Answer 15

applies findings from basic research to improve human health and well - being

Question 16

Quantitative research

Answer 16

a scientific approach that collects numerical data gathered from subjects through different sources of experimentation

Question 17

Qualitative research

Answer 17

uses interviews/observations to gather non numeric data that is gathered in a natural environment

Question 18

Descriptive research

Answer 18

• Describes the current state of the problem
• Does not require the manipulation of experimental variables
• Does not give a conclusion as to why something occurs
• Offers no explanation of what happens

Question 19

Experimental research

Answer 19

• manipulates variables to investigate the effect on an outcome
• provides conclusions as to why an effect occurs

Question 20

Longitudinal research

Answer 20

• The most reliable of the three types of experimental research because societal/ technological factors to not largely impact the results.
• familiarity is often a problem because people learn how to take the tests, therefore disrupting the data

Question 21

Cross-Section research

Answer 21

• allows all data to be collected at once

- performance may be affected due to societal/longitudinal factors

Question 22

Hypothesis

Answer 22

the proposed explanation for the occurrence of a specific outcome (if…….then…….)

Question 23

Independent Variable

Answer 23

the variable that is manipulated by the researcher to affect the dependent variable