ACE PERSONAL TRAINER NEW
EXAM 2024
400 QUESTIONS WITH A+ GRADED
ANSWERS
When should behavior contracts and written agreements be
revised or updated?
a. Whenever the client has a relapse into inactivity
b. After the client finishes his final purchased workout
c. Never; they should be permanent documents
d. When goals are met or programs are modified -
....ANSWER...When goals are met or programs are
modified
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,It is important that a written agreement is reviewed and
adjusted at all program-modification points. Similarly, the
behavior contract must be revised and updated as goals are
met and programs are modified.
After several months of working with a client, a personal
trainer notes that the client's self-efficacy and ability levels
have improved. How should this affect the amount of
external feedback the trainer provides to the client?
a. The trainer should increase the amount of external
feedback
b. The amount of feedback should not change
c. The trainer should taper the amount of external feedback
d. The trainer should immediately stop providing external
feedback - ....ANSWER...c) The trainer should taper the
amount of external feedback
As self-efficacy and ability build, trainers should taper off
the amount of external feedback they provide, encouraging
the clients to start providing feedback for themselves.
Clients must learn to reinforce their own behaviors by
providing internal encouragement, error correction, and
even punishment.
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,While on an airplane, you are talking with the man next to
you and tell him that you are a personal trainer. This opens
up a conversation during which the mans ask you a
number of questions about things he has read recently
regarding exercise, nutrition, and health. He says that he
does not currently exercise, but he has been thiking about
joing a gym and asks you for recommendations. Based on
this information, in what stage of behavior change would
he be categorized?
A. Precontemplation
B. Contemplation
C. Preparation
D. Action - ....ANSWER...B. Contemplation
A new client tells you that she used to participate in local
10k and half-marathon running events before having twins.
Although she had wanted to continue running, she has not
been active since her children were born 2 years ago. Now
that they are in daycare 3 days per week, she has begun
walking a bit and wants to begin running, with an eventual
goal of completing her first marathon. Based on this
information, what stages of change has she gone through
from pre-pregnany to meeting with you today.
A. Action -> Precontemplation -> Action
B. Maintenance -> Contemplation -> Action
C. Action -> Maintenance -> Preparation
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, D. Maintenance -> Contemplation -> Preparation -
....ANSWER...D. Maintenance -> Contemplation ->
Preparation
Shaping Refers to? - ....ANSWER...using
REINFORCEMENTS to gradually achieve a target
behavior
73.
What does Extinction refer to? - ....ANSWER...when a
positive stimulus that once followed a behavior is
removed. The likelyhood that the behavior will reoccur is
decreased.
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Negative Reinforcement is? - ....ANSWER...The removal
or avoidance of an ADVERSIVE stimuli
Using reinforcement to help a client progress from doing a
quarter lunge to performing a full lunge and then
eventually adding resistance is an example of which
process?
A. Shaping
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EXAM 2024
400 QUESTIONS WITH A+ GRADED
ANSWERS
When should behavior contracts and written agreements be
revised or updated?
a. Whenever the client has a relapse into inactivity
b. After the client finishes his final purchased workout
c. Never; they should be permanent documents
d. When goals are met or programs are modified -
....ANSWER...When goals are met or programs are
modified
1
,It is important that a written agreement is reviewed and
adjusted at all program-modification points. Similarly, the
behavior contract must be revised and updated as goals are
met and programs are modified.
After several months of working with a client, a personal
trainer notes that the client's self-efficacy and ability levels
have improved. How should this affect the amount of
external feedback the trainer provides to the client?
a. The trainer should increase the amount of external
feedback
b. The amount of feedback should not change
c. The trainer should taper the amount of external feedback
d. The trainer should immediately stop providing external
feedback - ....ANSWER...c) The trainer should taper the
amount of external feedback
As self-efficacy and ability build, trainers should taper off
the amount of external feedback they provide, encouraging
the clients to start providing feedback for themselves.
Clients must learn to reinforce their own behaviors by
providing internal encouragement, error correction, and
even punishment.
2
,While on an airplane, you are talking with the man next to
you and tell him that you are a personal trainer. This opens
up a conversation during which the mans ask you a
number of questions about things he has read recently
regarding exercise, nutrition, and health. He says that he
does not currently exercise, but he has been thiking about
joing a gym and asks you for recommendations. Based on
this information, in what stage of behavior change would
he be categorized?
A. Precontemplation
B. Contemplation
C. Preparation
D. Action - ....ANSWER...B. Contemplation
A new client tells you that she used to participate in local
10k and half-marathon running events before having twins.
Although she had wanted to continue running, she has not
been active since her children were born 2 years ago. Now
that they are in daycare 3 days per week, she has begun
walking a bit and wants to begin running, with an eventual
goal of completing her first marathon. Based on this
information, what stages of change has she gone through
from pre-pregnany to meeting with you today.
A. Action -> Precontemplation -> Action
B. Maintenance -> Contemplation -> Action
C. Action -> Maintenance -> Preparation
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, D. Maintenance -> Contemplation -> Preparation -
....ANSWER...D. Maintenance -> Contemplation ->
Preparation
Shaping Refers to? - ....ANSWER...using
REINFORCEMENTS to gradually achieve a target
behavior
73.
What does Extinction refer to? - ....ANSWER...when a
positive stimulus that once followed a behavior is
removed. The likelyhood that the behavior will reoccur is
decreased.
73
Negative Reinforcement is? - ....ANSWER...The removal
or avoidance of an ADVERSIVE stimuli
Using reinforcement to help a client progress from doing a
quarter lunge to performing a full lunge and then
eventually adding resistance is an example of which
process?
A. Shaping
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