Test 2

Question 1

Types of issues that a physical activity sociologist investigates?

Answer 1

How many female officials are employed in professional sports? How available are tennis, golf, and swimming to all?

Question 2

Know the three goals of sociology of physical activity?

Answer 2

1) To examine PA with a penetrating gaze. 2) To identify and analyze patterns of stability ad change in PA. 3) To critique the PA programs

Question 3

Be able to give a few examples of what sociology of physical activity and sport has taught us?

Answer 3

They tell us why races play certain sports like why tennis, golf, and swimming are usually more white predominant.

Question 4

What is motor behavior?

Answer 4

The study of how motor skills are developed, learned, and controlled.

Question 5

What are the three sub-categories of motor behavior?

Answer 5

Motor learning, motor control, motor development

Question 6

What do motor learning, motor development, and motor control entail?

Answer 6

Motor Learning- is how we learn to do movement
Motor Control- is how we control and produce coordinated sequences of movement
Motor development is how the learning and control of motor skills changes across a life time

Question 7

Be able to list some topics in motor learning, development, and control

Answer 7

Motor learning- stages of learning, transfer of skill, and individual differences.
Motor Control- General motor program theory and dynamical systems theory
Motor Development- Differences in body mechanics, growth and deterioration

Question 8

Who uses motor behavior principles?

Answer 8

Coaches, PE Teachers, PT’s and OT’s, and Personal Trainers

Question 9

What is sport and exercise psychology(SEP)?

Answer 9

The study of the mental processes of human as they engage in physical activity

Question 10

What are the two goals of SEP?

Answer 10

Optimal Performance(Athletes) and Optimal Satisfaction(Everybody)

Question 11

What is the difference between sport psychology and exercise psychology?

Answer 11

Sport psychology is competitive sport competition and Exercise psychology is more fitness, exercise, health, and wellness

Question 12

Know the difference between a psychologist and a psychology consultant?

Answer 12

A psychology consultant normally works on the general goal of teaching mental skills necessary to perform consistently in training an competition and a psychologist provide psychotherapy and treat psychological issues not related to sports

Question 13

Be able to list what sport psychology consultants can do?

Answer 13

Private practices, mental training coach, private sector, and professional sport teams

Question 14

Who was the first sport psychology consultant?

Answer 14

Coleman Griffith, 1938

Question 15

Be able to list and describe some topics in sport psychology?

Answer 15

Motivation, Group/Team, and Burnout

Question 16

What is biomechanics

Answer 16

The applications of the mechanical laws of physic to the structure, motion, and functioning of humans and our musculoskeletal system

Question 17

What are some introductory subjects necessary to understand biomechanics?

Answer 17

Algebra/Trigonometry, Physics, Anatomy and Physiology, and Engineering

Question 18

What are the main goals of biomechanics?

Answer 18

1) To understand the basic laws of physics affect and shape the structure and the function of the human body
2) To apply the understanding in order to improve the outcomes of our movements, or increase or maintain the safety and health of our tissues

Question 19

What do biomechanics do?

Answer 19

Sport performance, design foot wear, forensic biomechanist, prosthetic limb specialist, and professor/researcher

Question 20

What types of technological apparatus are used for research in biomechanics?

Answer 20

Force plate, video motion analysis, and electromyography

Question 21

Be able to list and explain some contributions from biomechanics?

Answer 21

Research on shoe wear so every sport has specialized foot wear. Limb prosthetics for veterans is a rather important contribution

Question 22

What is exercise physiology?

Answer 22

The applications of principles from Biology and Chemistry to understand how the body responds and adapts to physical activity

Question 23

What are some introductory subjects necessary to understand ex phys?

Answer 23

biology and chemistry

Question 24

What are the four goals of ex phys?

Answer 24

Enhance sport performance, improve physical fitness and health, promote health , and understand changes and adaptions to PA?

Question 25

What can exercise physiologists do?

Answer 25

Detailed analysis of the bodies’ composition and they asses the health and fitness for people. Health clinic, hospital, and rehab.