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Any bodily movement produced by the contraction of skeletal muscles that result in a
substantial increase in caloric requirements over resting energy expenditure - Answer
physical activity
A type of physical activity consisting of planned, structured, and repetitive bodily movement
done to improve and/or maintain one or more components of physical fitness - Answer
exercise
What are vigorous exercises? Frequency? Duration? - Answer Three days a week, 25 minutes
per day; cumulative
What are moderate exercises? Frequency? Duration? - Answer 5 days per week, 30 minutes
per day; cumulative
What is strength training? Frequency? Duration? Intensity? Sets? Reps? - Answer 2 days per
week, 10 exercises; until fatigue, 1/exercise, 8-12/exercise
What percent of US adults engage in at least moderate-intensity aerobic exercises for 150
min/wk or vigorous exercise for 75 min/wk? - Answer 52.6%
What percent of US adults do not participate in any leisure time PA? - Answer 27%
The promotion of leisure-time PA and psychosocial consequences of leisure-time PA. - Answer
exercise psychology
What is the purpose of exercise psychology? - Answer To promote exercise through
psychological processes and to see how exercise affects our psychological makeup - mood,
energy levels
Investigates ways to enhance athletic performance, sport participation, and personal
satisfaction through sports - Answer sports psychology
,What are the occupational opportunities in exercise psychology? - Answer Higher education,
primary or secondary education, fitness and wellness, rehabilitation
What is theoria? - Answer Scientific method used in natural sciences to explain cause-and-
effect relations; predict hurricanes. Good for explaining STABLE, invariable, context-
independent, universal phenomenon
What are the scientific method guidelines? - Answer Systematic approach, control of
conditions, empirical evidence, and critical approach
What is theory? - Answer Interrelated facts to systematically explain a phenomemon
What is instrumental reasoning? - Answer Instrumentally, you will tell people what to do,
how much to exercise, what this prescription means. Researchers determine important goals
and how to achieve them
What is praxis? - Answer Practical reason (phronesis/moral wisdom) derived from one's
culture, history, personal experiences, and socio-political system
What is phronesis? - Answer Moral reasoning, practical wisdom,, how to live a good life
What is communicative reason? - Answer moral reasoning: community members share
values and ideas regarding how to live the good life
What is the difference between Renaissance and Scientific Method? - Answer From the oral
to the written, the particular to the universal, the local to the general, and the timely to the
timeless
What is measurement? - Answer The assignment of numbers to constructs of interest
What is the importance of PA measurement? - Answer Specify PA types for health and
wellness, monitor PA changes over time, PA intervention programs, PA prevalence
nominal - Answer scale that places people in categories (gender, religion, race)
, interval - Answer fahrenheit ade centigrade are a _ measurement
ratio - Answer equal interval with an absolute zero
ratio - Answer MET scores and the Likert scale are examples of _
nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio - Answer rank the scales of measurement from lowest to
highest
What are PA parameters? - Answer Type, frequency, duration, and intensity
What is validity? - Answer Test validation: test scores are appropriate, meaningful, and useful
what is reliability? - Answer consistency of measurement
what is objectivity? - Answer consistency of test scores measured by different raters
What is content validity? - Answer Degree to which a sample of items reflects the elements
of the construct of interest
What is concurrent/criterion validity? - Answer Comparison of target measurement scores
with criterion measurement scores
What is construct validity? - Answer Degree to which a construct relates to other constructs
relevant to a hypothetical phenomenon and behavior
What is test-retest? - Answer Consistency/stability of test scores across time
subjective PA Assessment (questionnaires) - Answer advantages: easy administration,
inexpensive administration, easy scoring, measure a large number of participants quickly
subjective PA Assessment (questionnaires) - Answer disadvantages: social desirability bias,