NASM NUTRITION CERTIFICATION (EXAM)
Questions and Answers
1. Basic yet reliable set of five questions that help assess whether
an eating disorder exists.
Do you make yourself Sick because you feel
uncomfortably full? Do you worry that you have lost
Control over how much you eat?
Have you recently lost more than One stone (14 lbs) in a 3-month
period? Do you believe yourself to be Fat when others say you are
too thin?
Would you say that Food dominates your life?: SCOFF questionnaire
2. The process of formulating explanations about the natural world
and testing those explanations with experiments and data.
1. Identify a Problem
2. Formulate a hypothesis
3. Design a study to test the hypothesis
4. Collect data
5. Discard or change the hypothesis OR continue testing: Scientific
Method
,3. A three-pronged approach to working with clients, which consists
of making decisions based on the weight of the scientific evidence,
field observations, and individual client needs and preferences.: Evidence-
Based Practice
4. An expected outcome generated from a hypothesis: Prediction
5. A hypothesis or set of hypotheses for which a large body of
high-quality evidence has been accumulated.: Theory
6. 1. Systematic Reviews
2. Randomized Controlled Trials
3. Observational Research
4. Peer Reviews
5. Non-Peer-Reviewed Media, including anecdotes: Hierarchy of Evidence
7. an account of a person's experience or event: Anecdote
8. A variable in an experiment that a scientist makes no effort to
manipulate or account for.: Uncontrolled Variable
9. Original research where scientists perform experiments and
collect data - this is in contrast to secondary research where
scientists analyze data that has already been collected or published
,elsewhere.: Primary Research
10. Research in which a researcher observes ongoing behaviors
to determine correlation.: Observational Research
11. A relationship between two or more variables.: Correlation
12. A type of scientific study/trial where participants are
randomly assigned into different groups - one or more will be the
intervention to be tested and one will be the control group. Groups
are randomized and a control is used in an attempt to reduce potential
bias in the trial.: Randomized Control Trial (RCT)
13. The variable scientists manipulate in an experiment.: Independent
Variable
14. The ability to generalize the results of a study.: External Validity
15. A review where scientists systematically gather all research
on a topic and evaluate it based on predefined criteria and rules.:
Systematic Review
16. A statistical analysis of a group of studies to assess the overall
, weight of the evidence.: Meta-Analysis
17. Based on observation or experience.: Empirical
18. The ability to get similar results when something is
measured under the same conditions.: Test-Retest Reliability
19. The consistency of a measure.: Reliability
20. The assessment of whether a tool is measuring what it is
supposed to measure.: Validity
21. A sample of people under study is not representative of the
larger population that scientists are looking to make inferences about.:
Selection Bias
22. Describes a study that looks backward in time.: Retrospective
23. The inability to accurately remember past behaviors.: Recall Bias
24. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being,
not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.: Health
25. The tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between
interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological
processes.: Homeostasis
Questions and Answers
1. Basic yet reliable set of five questions that help assess whether
an eating disorder exists.
Do you make yourself Sick because you feel
uncomfortably full? Do you worry that you have lost
Control over how much you eat?
Have you recently lost more than One stone (14 lbs) in a 3-month
period? Do you believe yourself to be Fat when others say you are
too thin?
Would you say that Food dominates your life?: SCOFF questionnaire
2. The process of formulating explanations about the natural world
and testing those explanations with experiments and data.
1. Identify a Problem
2. Formulate a hypothesis
3. Design a study to test the hypothesis
4. Collect data
5. Discard or change the hypothesis OR continue testing: Scientific
Method
,3. A three-pronged approach to working with clients, which consists
of making decisions based on the weight of the scientific evidence,
field observations, and individual client needs and preferences.: Evidence-
Based Practice
4. An expected outcome generated from a hypothesis: Prediction
5. A hypothesis or set of hypotheses for which a large body of
high-quality evidence has been accumulated.: Theory
6. 1. Systematic Reviews
2. Randomized Controlled Trials
3. Observational Research
4. Peer Reviews
5. Non-Peer-Reviewed Media, including anecdotes: Hierarchy of Evidence
7. an account of a person's experience or event: Anecdote
8. A variable in an experiment that a scientist makes no effort to
manipulate or account for.: Uncontrolled Variable
9. Original research where scientists perform experiments and
collect data - this is in contrast to secondary research where
scientists analyze data that has already been collected or published
,elsewhere.: Primary Research
10. Research in which a researcher observes ongoing behaviors
to determine correlation.: Observational Research
11. A relationship between two or more variables.: Correlation
12. A type of scientific study/trial where participants are
randomly assigned into different groups - one or more will be the
intervention to be tested and one will be the control group. Groups
are randomized and a control is used in an attempt to reduce potential
bias in the trial.: Randomized Control Trial (RCT)
13. The variable scientists manipulate in an experiment.: Independent
Variable
14. The ability to generalize the results of a study.: External Validity
15. A review where scientists systematically gather all research
on a topic and evaluate it based on predefined criteria and rules.:
Systematic Review
16. A statistical analysis of a group of studies to assess the overall
, weight of the evidence.: Meta-Analysis
17. Based on observation or experience.: Empirical
18. The ability to get similar results when something is
measured under the same conditions.: Test-Retest Reliability
19. The consistency of a measure.: Reliability
20. The assessment of whether a tool is measuring what it is
supposed to measure.: Validity
21. A sample of people under study is not representative of the
larger population that scientists are looking to make inferences about.:
Selection Bias
22. Describes a study that looks backward in time.: Retrospective
23. The inability to accurately remember past behaviors.: Recall Bias
24. A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being,
not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.: Health
25. The tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between
interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological
processes.: Homeostasis
