NASM Nutrition Certification EXAM (Nutrition Specialist Exam) 2023

SCOFF questionnaire CORRECT ANSWER 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? Scientific Method CORRECT ANSWER 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 Evidence-Based Practice CORRECT ANSWER 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. Prediction CORRECT ANSWER An expected outcome generated from a hypothesis Theory CORRECT ANSWER A hypothesis or set of hypotheses for which a large body of high-quality evidence has been accumulated.