NASM NUTRITION LATEST EXAMS TEST
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Stages of Change Model: Contemplation - ✔✔When a person is thinking about
implementing change but has not yet taken any steps to get started - an individual may
take action within the next 6 months.
✔✔Stages of Change Model: Preparation - ✔✔When a person intends to change
behavior and is preparing to change, but has not yet taken action.
✔✔Stages of Change Model: Maintenance - ✔✔When a person has successfully
implemented a behavioral change for more than 6 months.
✔✔Stages of Change Model: Relapse - ✔✔When a person has stopped doing the
positive behavior and has returned to a previous negative behavior.
✔✔Self-Esteem - ✔✔How an individual views themself with regard to their worthiness
and abilities.
✔✔Self-Efficacy - ✔✔The confidence that a person has that he or she can successfully
engage in the behaviors required for a certain outcome.
,✔✔Body Reality - ✔✔Based on a person's measurable attributes such as height,
weight, body-fat percentage, and waist circumference.
✔✔Body Ideal - ✔✔Refers to what a person believes or wishes their own body looked
like.
✔✔Body Image - ✔✔How someone perceives his or her body to look, which may not be
how the person actually looks.
✔✔Confidence - ✔✔A feeling about or a belief in one's abilities or attributes.
✔✔Vicarious Experiences - ✔✔When something is experienced through another
person's actions or behaviors.
✔✔Social Persuasion - ✔✔This is where encouragement, empathy, and being positive
are crucial. Being an advocate for the behavioral change, being a cheerleader for the
client, and providing ongoing accountability will show the client that he or she has
support. When it comes to making a change regarding diet and exercise, it is possible
that the only consistent support comes from the trainer or coach. Checking in frequently
and coaching clients on how to navigate potentially difficult situations will allow the client
to realize success and increase self-efficacy
✔✔Anti-Fat Bias - ✔✔Placing a negative judgment on overweight and obese
individuals.
✔✔Sedentary Behavior - ✔✔Any behaviors, such as sitting or lying down, that require
little energy expenditure.
✔✔Social Support - ✔✔All the ways that someone is supported by others, including
emotional support, providing information, or assistance.
✔✔Emotional Support - ✔✔Providing encouragement, accountability, or empathy to
another person.
✔✔Informational Support - ✔✔Providing facts and educating others.
✔✔Social Networks - ✔✔Social structure made up of various interactions or
relationships between groups of people.
✔✔Willpower - ✔✔The ability to control impulses.
✔✔Disordered Eating - ✔✔Patterns of abnormal eating behaviors that do not meet the
criteria for diagnosis of an eating disorder.
, ✔✔Distress - ✔✔The experience of negative feelings, such as anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
✔✔Depression - ✔✔A mood disorder characterized by a persistent feeling of sadness
and/or loss of interest in everyday life.
✔✔Anorexia Nervosa - ✔✔Eating disorder characterized by extremely low body BMI.
<15 extremely dangerous
✔✔Bulimia Nervosa - ✔✔Eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of binge
eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors, including purging, use of
laxatives or diuretics, fasting, or excessive exercise to avoid weight gain.
✔✔Binge-Eating Disorder - ✔✔Eating disorder characterized by frequent consumption
of an unusually large amount of food along with a feeling of loss of control and/or the
inability to stop eating.
✔✔Mindless Eating - ✔✔Eating without attention to or awareness of the food being
consumed.
✔✔Mindful Eating - ✔✔Paying attention to the food being eaten, acknowledging hunger
and satiety signals, and adjusting food intake accordingly.
✔✔Communication - ✔✔Process of sending and receiving messages through verbal
and nonverbal means.
✔✔Soft Skills - ✔✔Personal attributes related to how well one works with others.
✔✔Self-Awareness - ✔✔Knowledge of one's own habits, feelings, and motivations.
✔✔Nonverbal Communication - ✔✔Exchange of information through wordless cues.
✔✔Verbal Communication - ✔✔The words used to convey a message.
✔✔Denotation - ✔✔Literal meaning of a word.
✔✔Connotation - ✔✔Emotional or perceived meaning of a word.
✔✔Active Listening - ✔✔Act of mindfully hearing and attempting to comprehend the
meaning of words spoken in a conversation.
✔✔Stages of Listening: Receiving - ✔✔Intentional focus on hearing what the client is
sharing.
PAPER QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Stages of Change Model: Contemplation - ✔✔When a person is thinking about
implementing change but has not yet taken any steps to get started - an individual may
take action within the next 6 months.
✔✔Stages of Change Model: Preparation - ✔✔When a person intends to change
behavior and is preparing to change, but has not yet taken action.
✔✔Stages of Change Model: Maintenance - ✔✔When a person has successfully
implemented a behavioral change for more than 6 months.
✔✔Stages of Change Model: Relapse - ✔✔When a person has stopped doing the
positive behavior and has returned to a previous negative behavior.
✔✔Self-Esteem - ✔✔How an individual views themself with regard to their worthiness
and abilities.
✔✔Self-Efficacy - ✔✔The confidence that a person has that he or she can successfully
engage in the behaviors required for a certain outcome.
,✔✔Body Reality - ✔✔Based on a person's measurable attributes such as height,
weight, body-fat percentage, and waist circumference.
✔✔Body Ideal - ✔✔Refers to what a person believes or wishes their own body looked
like.
✔✔Body Image - ✔✔How someone perceives his or her body to look, which may not be
how the person actually looks.
✔✔Confidence - ✔✔A feeling about or a belief in one's abilities or attributes.
✔✔Vicarious Experiences - ✔✔When something is experienced through another
person's actions or behaviors.
✔✔Social Persuasion - ✔✔This is where encouragement, empathy, and being positive
are crucial. Being an advocate for the behavioral change, being a cheerleader for the
client, and providing ongoing accountability will show the client that he or she has
support. When it comes to making a change regarding diet and exercise, it is possible
that the only consistent support comes from the trainer or coach. Checking in frequently
and coaching clients on how to navigate potentially difficult situations will allow the client
to realize success and increase self-efficacy
✔✔Anti-Fat Bias - ✔✔Placing a negative judgment on overweight and obese
individuals.
✔✔Sedentary Behavior - ✔✔Any behaviors, such as sitting or lying down, that require
little energy expenditure.
✔✔Social Support - ✔✔All the ways that someone is supported by others, including
emotional support, providing information, or assistance.
✔✔Emotional Support - ✔✔Providing encouragement, accountability, or empathy to
another person.
✔✔Informational Support - ✔✔Providing facts and educating others.
✔✔Social Networks - ✔✔Social structure made up of various interactions or
relationships between groups of people.
✔✔Willpower - ✔✔The ability to control impulses.
✔✔Disordered Eating - ✔✔Patterns of abnormal eating behaviors that do not meet the
criteria for diagnosis of an eating disorder.
, ✔✔Distress - ✔✔The experience of negative feelings, such as anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
✔✔Depression - ✔✔A mood disorder characterized by a persistent feeling of sadness
and/or loss of interest in everyday life.
✔✔Anorexia Nervosa - ✔✔Eating disorder characterized by extremely low body BMI.
<15 extremely dangerous
✔✔Bulimia Nervosa - ✔✔Eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of binge
eating followed by inappropriate compensatory behaviors, including purging, use of
laxatives or diuretics, fasting, or excessive exercise to avoid weight gain.
✔✔Binge-Eating Disorder - ✔✔Eating disorder characterized by frequent consumption
of an unusually large amount of food along with a feeling of loss of control and/or the
inability to stop eating.
✔✔Mindless Eating - ✔✔Eating without attention to or awareness of the food being
consumed.
✔✔Mindful Eating - ✔✔Paying attention to the food being eaten, acknowledging hunger
and satiety signals, and adjusting food intake accordingly.
✔✔Communication - ✔✔Process of sending and receiving messages through verbal
and nonverbal means.
✔✔Soft Skills - ✔✔Personal attributes related to how well one works with others.
✔✔Self-Awareness - ✔✔Knowledge of one's own habits, feelings, and motivations.
✔✔Nonverbal Communication - ✔✔Exchange of information through wordless cues.
✔✔Verbal Communication - ✔✔The words used to convey a message.
✔✔Denotation - ✔✔Literal meaning of a word.
✔✔Connotation - ✔✔Emotional or perceived meaning of a word.
✔✔Active Listening - ✔✔Act of mindfully hearing and attempting to comprehend the
meaning of words spoken in a conversation.
✔✔Stages of Listening: Receiving - ✔✔Intentional focus on hearing what the client is
sharing.
