Test 1

Question 1

Five professions that a degree in exercise science can give you?

Answer 1

coach, personal trainer, sports nutritionists, athletic trainers, and biomechanist

Question 2

Define physical activity

Answer 2

Intentional, voluntary movement directed toward achieving an identifiable goal

Question 3

What are three categories of physical activity and exercise?

Answer 3

Training, Health, Therapeutic

Question 4

Be able to name and describe the two types of skilled movement

Answer 4

Sports Skill, body movements produced for success, and Developmental skills, fine motor control skills.

Question 5

List five sub-disciplines of Exercise Science

Answer 5

motor behavior, biomechanics, exercise physiology, sport sociology, sport psychology, therapeutic recreation, and sports management.

Question 6

What is philosophy?

Answer 6

Seeking a higher understanding of present situations

Question 7

What does philosophical thinking help us do as exercise scientists?

Answer 7

It helps us better deal with the tough questions

Question 8

How do we do philosophy?

Answer 8

It is done by asking questions, arguing, trying out ideas and thinking of possible arguments against them, and wondering how our concerts really work

Question 9

List the four ways we “philosophize.”

Answer 9

Reflect on experience, use logic, appeal to common sense, and deploy conclusions.

Question 10

Be able to describe deductive reasoning?

Answer 10

Starts with one or more broad premises to identify conclusions that follow from them

Question 11

List and describe the three philosophies behind the mind-body relationship?

Answer 11

Materialsim- everything is made up of atoms and void
Dualism- brain and body similarity to a machine, thoughts and emotions change behavior
Holism- Development of our body by our thoughts. Our thoughts are shaped by our state of mind

Question 12

Be able to distinguish between games and sport, competition, and play

Answer 12

A sport is a game meant to test our motor skills and abilities. Competition is wanting to perform at the highest level. Play can be anything

Question 13

What was the primary purpose for physical activity in the 6th century BC?

Answer 13

to survive and prepare for battle

Question 14

What significant happenings were occurring in the US during 1840-1900 that helped change physical activity?

Answer 14

Farm life turned to factory life; less and less reliance on physical activity

Question 15

Where did the primary forms of physical activity come from during that period and what were they? What role did immigrants play?

Answer 15

Turnvereins and Calisthenics; Immigrants brought sports with them and that was a way o bond and to keep their cure alive

Question 16

When was the field of Physical Education started?

Answer 16

1820

Question 17

What significant happenings were occurring in the Us during 1900-1950 that helped change physical activity?

Answer 17

Sports became a big entertainment hit

Question 18

How and to what did physical activities focus shift during that time period

Answer 18

It became more available for more people and more women got involved

Question 19

What significant happenings were occurring in the US during 1950-now that helped change physical activity

Answer 19

Civil rights and modern technology

Question 20

How did physical activity change during this time period?

Answer 20

PA was down to all time low and sports few as a spectator event

Question 21

Physical Activity experience is “any activity that includes…”

Answer 21

training, observation of practice, and personal participation

Question 22

Know the two major factors that influence PA experience and their sub-factors?

Answer 22

Social Environment- parents, peers, teachers/coaches

Personal Circumstances- physical attributes, geography, economic considerations

Question 23

Know the difference between practice and training

Answer 23

Practice is learning and development a skill, Training is conditioning and becoming stronger

Question 24

Know what immediate and replayed subjective experiences are and what they can do for an individual’s perception of their experience

Answer 24

Immediate is how you feel after a practice and replayed is self-reflective on an experience

Question 25

Know and be able to describe the three components of subjective experiences?

Answer 25

Sensations and perceptions, emotions and responses, and knowledge

Question 26

Know and be able to describe the three factors affecting subjective physical activity enjoyment. Also be able to describe the sub factors within each factor

Answer 26

Related to Activity-is it challenging
Related to performer-disposition
related to social context- weather, presence of people