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Kines 100 final exam Questions with Answers
(100% Correct Answers)
What does Dr. Dyreson claim is the best definition of kinesiology? Answer: the
explanation of human movement
According to Dr. Dyreson, what are the basic characteristics of "meaningful
movement"? Answer: -Intentional, voluntary, freely chosen
-Creates something of value or worth
-Has a significance beyond simple physical vitality and biological wellness
What "foundations" of the field of kinesiology did Kines 100 explore? Answer:
- Explanation of human movement
- Philosophy and ethics
- Culture and history
-Psychology and public health
How do you "read" a culture? What "data" do you "read"? Answer: -
Ethonography
—the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures
-Autobiography
-Written sources
-Visual Sources
-Auditory Sources
-Artifacts
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On the average, how many hours per week do experts in human evolution
estimate that our long ago ancestors, the original homo sapiens sapiens, worked
hunting and gathering and on other basic necessities to wrest a living from their
environments, from 10,000 to 140,000 years ago? Answer: 20 hours a week
How has human height changed over the history of our species? Answer: -men
5'10 to 5'5"
-women 5'6" to 5'1"
How did the Neolithic Revolution change human bodies? Answer: -we went
from nomadic to sedentary (people grew fatter)
-With more food we produced more people, but more disease
-Food surpluses and the rise of trade because they are no longer hunter and
gatherers, it is not scarce. Overabundance of one thing, so they need more of
another
-we lived longer
-Average human height shrank
What, according to Clifford Geertz in "Deep Play,"can you "read" by looking
at the sports and other physical activities of a culture? Answer: you can read a
culture
What does Clifford Geertz mean when he argues that cockfights are "a Balinese
reading of Balinese experience, a story they tell themselves about themselves"?
Answer: The balinese use cockfights to define who and what they are much
more like modern americans use baseball, or football, or other sports to define
who they are
In the "Sports Gene," how many people (of the seven billion current
inhabitants) are likely to have all 23 specific genes that would make someone a
superior distance runner? How many of us have ACTN3, the so-called "speed
gene"? On balance, what does David Epstein in the "Sports Gene" conclude
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about genetics and human performance? Answer: no one; billions of people
worldwide; the use of the genes depends on the attitude of the person
In The Republic, Plato insists that all of the guardians (the soldiers and
leaders)of his ideal state should be schooled through a balanced system of what
two types of education? Answer: Music and Gymnastics
In the "Evolution of Intelligent Running Ape People," what set of inter-related
characteristics did Bernd Heinrich identify as the keys to making human
ancestors into "super-endurance predators"? How did Heinrich define human
"vision" in his explanation of how we became "super endurance predators"?
Answer: -Bipedalism limited the amount of surface area that humans exposed
to the sun and helped tremendously in thermo-regulatory processes.
-Bipedalism raised human eyes above the grass line of the African savannah
and helped our ancestors to see better at long distances.
-Bipedalism freed human hands to carry things (tools, weapons, water)that
made them better hunters
-Bipedalism allowed humans to carry their offspring and thus create a mobile,
nomadic, hunting culture.
In Born to Run, how did Chris MacDougall describe"Tarahumaraland" as a
utopia? Answer: -No diabetes
-No high cholesterol or blood pressure
-No stealing, lying or fighting
-Low calorie, low fat diets
-Lots of cardiovascular endurance exercise
-No Physical challenges
Kines 100 final exam Questions with Answers
(100% Correct Answers)
What does Dr. Dyreson claim is the best definition of kinesiology? Answer: the
explanation of human movement
According to Dr. Dyreson, what are the basic characteristics of "meaningful
movement"? Answer: -Intentional, voluntary, freely chosen
-Creates something of value or worth
-Has a significance beyond simple physical vitality and biological wellness
What "foundations" of the field of kinesiology did Kines 100 explore? Answer:
- Explanation of human movement
- Philosophy and ethics
- Culture and history
-Psychology and public health
How do you "read" a culture? What "data" do you "read"? Answer: -
Ethonography
—the scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures
-Autobiography
-Written sources
-Visual Sources
-Auditory Sources
-Artifacts
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On the average, how many hours per week do experts in human evolution
estimate that our long ago ancestors, the original homo sapiens sapiens, worked
hunting and gathering and on other basic necessities to wrest a living from their
environments, from 10,000 to 140,000 years ago? Answer: 20 hours a week
How has human height changed over the history of our species? Answer: -men
5'10 to 5'5"
-women 5'6" to 5'1"
How did the Neolithic Revolution change human bodies? Answer: -we went
from nomadic to sedentary (people grew fatter)
-With more food we produced more people, but more disease
-Food surpluses and the rise of trade because they are no longer hunter and
gatherers, it is not scarce. Overabundance of one thing, so they need more of
another
-we lived longer
-Average human height shrank
What, according to Clifford Geertz in "Deep Play,"can you "read" by looking
at the sports and other physical activities of a culture? Answer: you can read a
culture
What does Clifford Geertz mean when he argues that cockfights are "a Balinese
reading of Balinese experience, a story they tell themselves about themselves"?
Answer: The balinese use cockfights to define who and what they are much
more like modern americans use baseball, or football, or other sports to define
who they are
In the "Sports Gene," how many people (of the seven billion current
inhabitants) are likely to have all 23 specific genes that would make someone a
superior distance runner? How many of us have ACTN3, the so-called "speed
gene"? On balance, what does David Epstein in the "Sports Gene" conclude
, 3
about genetics and human performance? Answer: no one; billions of people
worldwide; the use of the genes depends on the attitude of the person
In The Republic, Plato insists that all of the guardians (the soldiers and
leaders)of his ideal state should be schooled through a balanced system of what
two types of education? Answer: Music and Gymnastics
In the "Evolution of Intelligent Running Ape People," what set of inter-related
characteristics did Bernd Heinrich identify as the keys to making human
ancestors into "super-endurance predators"? How did Heinrich define human
"vision" in his explanation of how we became "super endurance predators"?
Answer: -Bipedalism limited the amount of surface area that humans exposed
to the sun and helped tremendously in thermo-regulatory processes.
-Bipedalism raised human eyes above the grass line of the African savannah
and helped our ancestors to see better at long distances.
-Bipedalism freed human hands to carry things (tools, weapons, water)that
made them better hunters
-Bipedalism allowed humans to carry their offspring and thus create a mobile,
nomadic, hunting culture.
In Born to Run, how did Chris MacDougall describe"Tarahumaraland" as a
utopia? Answer: -No diabetes
-No high cholesterol or blood pressure
-No stealing, lying or fighting
-Low calorie, low fat diets
-Lots of cardiovascular endurance exercise
-No Physical challenges
