Foundations of Kinesiology Practice Questions
Course Introduction
Foundations of Kinesiology introduces students to the scientific study of human movement, exploring the biological, physiological, psychological, and sociological factors that influence physical activity and health. The course covers fundamental concepts such as biomechanics, motor learning, exercise physiology, and the historical and ethical aspects of kinesiology. Students will gain an understanding of how movement impacts health and performance, the role of physical activity across the lifespan, and career opportunities within the field. Emphasis is placed on applying theoretical knowledge to real-world scenarios, fostering a holistic appreciation of movement and its importance in society.
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Sport and Exercise Psychology A Canadian Perspective 3rd Edition by Peter Crocker
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Chapter 1: Introducing Sport and Exercise Psychology
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Q1) One MYTH about sport and exercise psychology is that only athletes or exercisers with serious mental problems need a sport and exercise psychologist. Explain why this is a myth.
Answer: Any athlete or person wanting to become more physically active can benefit from the services of a qualified sport and exercise psychology specialist. First, specialists design the majority of interventions to prepare athletes to manage the demands of training and competition and to enhance their well-being. Athletes can learn to develop and apply effective psychological skills to manage stress, focus attention, and augment motivation. In addition, specialists can teach coaches how to develop more effective training environments. Second, there are many effective interventions that can help people adopt and maintain healthy levels of physical activity.
Q2) Since working in diverse sport and exercise settings will require a range of sport science and psychological competencies, students should receive counselling and clinical psychology training.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Personality in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Constructs that refer to broad pervasive, encompassing ways of relating to particular types of people and or situations (such as competitiveness, optimism, and motivational orientation) are often referred to as examples of a person's ________.
A) disposition
B) id
C) self-efficacy
D) psychological core
E) role-related behaviour
Answer: A
Q2) Which psychologist argues that behaviour followed by a reward would increase the probability of a reoccurrence of the behaviour?
A) Hans Eysenck
B) Carl Rogers
C) Sigmund Freud
D) Albert Bandura
E) B.F. Skinner
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Motivation and Behavioural Change
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Q1) What are the basic psychological needs consider pivotal to human functioning and development within SDT?
A) competence, attitudes, and relatedness
B) competence, subjective norms, and relatedness
C) competence, autonomy, and perceived behavioural control
D) competence, autonomy, and relatedness
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following is NOT hypothesized to influence one's attitude toward exercise?
A) individual's perceived consequences of engaging in exercise
B) individual's positive or negative evaluation of the consequences
C) extent to which society values exercise
D) none of the above
Answer: C
Q3) According to the Transtheoretical Model, how do shifts in behaviour occur?
A) precontemplation
B) through intention
C) through self-efficacy
D) through processes of change
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Stress, Emotion, and Coping in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Which of the following should best be considered an outcome of coping, but not coping itself?
A) winning a soccer game
B) putting on shin-pads to prevent injury
C) listening to directions from the coach as to how to play better
D) using positive self-talk after being scored upon
Q2) When approaching a major swim competition, Kristina and Mike both become irritable and anxious about the event. Kristina seems open to talking about her stress and seeking support from coach and her teammates, but Mike doesn't talk to others and instead he seems to withdraw from others and keep to himself. Based on the gender socialization hypothesis, what is a possible reason why Mike and Kristina cope differently in the days leading up to a competition? Be sure to define the gender socialization hypothesis in your answer.
Q3) According to the literature on coping in sport, who is at risk of burnout in sport?
A) athletes
B) coaches
C) athletic directors
D) all of the above
E) none of the above
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Chapter 5: Anxiety in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Anxiety results when people believe that the task demands are greater than the resources that they have.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Describe the temporal patterning of the intensity of both cognitive and somatic anxiety in competitive settings.
Q3) Most of the sport and exercise research investigating anxiety has exclusively examined the frequency of the cognitive intrusion dimension of anxiety.
A)True
B)False
Q4) List the five predictions the catastrophe theory makes about the combined influences of cognitive state anxiety and physiological arousal on athletic performance.
Q5) Identify five categories of personal sources of anxiety.
Q6) Increasing one's conscious control of movement should lead to improvements in performance.
A)True
B)False
Q7) Explain how social physique anxiety is related to exercise behaviour.
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Chapter 6: Aggression and Moral Behaviour in Sport
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Q1) A rugby program that teaches athletes how to deal with frustration, annoyance, and attack, as well as technical skills, is using which method to curb aggression?
A) educational interventions
B) behaviour modification
C) changing the sport environment
D) punishment and encouragement
E) all of the above
Q2) The number of times competitors meet may have an impact on the amount of aggressive behaviour demonstrated in these matches.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Identify and explain Kohlberg's three levels of moral judgment.
Q4) A task-oriented athlete tends to perceive success as a function of outdoing others, and is more likely to break the rules.
A)True
B)False
Q5) List five personal factors that influence aggression.
Q6) Define aggressive behaviour by stating the four key points:
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Chapter 7: Sport Psychology Interventions
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Q1) A fatigued middle-distance runner in the last 500 metres of a race starts to silently repeat the words strong, powerful, and smooth. Which type of attention control strategy is being used?
A) self-talk
B) performance routine
C) attentional cues
D) imagery
Q2) Which is the most common procedure for measuring attention as a limited resource?
A) attention cueing
B) dual-task performance
C) temporal occlusion
D) focus assessment
Q3) An athlete who is practising imagining an accurate badminton serve is using which function of the analytic model of imagery?
A) motivational general-mastery
B) motivational specific
C) motivational general-arousal
D) cognitive specific
Q4) Explain why goal setting is effective.
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Chapter 8: Leadership in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Identify the five personality traits proposed in the Five-Factor Model (FFM) and describe how they are associated with leader emergence and effectiveness.
Q2) Effective leadership cannot be measured.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Fiedler differentiated between two broad types of leadership style: task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A typical prototype of the athlete leader does not include ________.
A) higher skilled
B) veteran
C) extrinsically motivated
D) well-liked
E) centrally located
Q5) Personality is unrelated to leadership emergence.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Group Cohesion in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) A hockey team whose members have been drawn to the team in early stages because it is very task oriented but eventually decide to stay with the group because they have all become good friends is demonstrating which characteristic of cohesion?
A) dynamic
B) multi-dimensional
C) instrumental
D) affective
E) encompassing
Q2) Cohesion works equally well in adherence and compliance situations.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which one of the following is a factor of cohesion in a sport group?
A) individual attraction to friendship
B) individual attraction to good friends
C) group integration friendship
D) group integration-social
E) comraderie
Q4) Describe the conceptual model of group cohesion.
Q5) Why is cohesion often reported to be the most important small group variable?
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Chapter 10: Youth Involvement and Positive Development in Sport
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Q1) Positive outcomes occur automatically through youth sport involvement.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following are the three components of Côté and Gilbert's (2009) definition of coaching effectiveness?
A) coach knowledge, coach behaviours, athletes' behaviours
B) coaching contexts, coach knowledge, peer interaction
C) parent behaviours, coach knowledge, coaching contexts
D) coach knowledge, coaching contexts, athletes' outcomes
E) peer interaction, coach behaviours, athletes' outcomes
Q3) Tangible Support refers to concrete assistance given to children in stressful situations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Contrast deliberate play and deliberate practice and each one's relationship to early specialization.
Q5) Côté and Gilbert (2009) proposed a definition of coaching effectiveness. Provide the definition of coaching effectiveness and describe its different components.
Q6) Describe the three objectives of youth sport.
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Chapter 11: Coaching Psychology
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Q1) Research from Dan Gould and his colleagues stressed the importance of effective coaching in the Training component of the Coaching Model.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Canada, Australia, and the U.K. all have a government-based national coaching organizations, while the United States does not.
A)True
B)False
Q3) James is the head baseball coach at a local high school. The Principal has made it very clear that James is not allowed to make physical contact with his athletes. This rule best describes which facet of Chelladurai's Multidimensional Model of Leadership?
A) Preferred Behaviour
B) Contextual Factors
C) Situational Behaviour
D) Required Behaviour
E) Coaches Characteristics
Q4) Explain the athlete-centred approach that is used by many successful coaches.
Q5) Explain the five coaching principles of youth-sport coaches.
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Chapter 12: Aging and Involvement in Sport and Physical Activity
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Q1) Compare the reasons Masters athletes give for participating in competitive sport with the reasons given by younger athletes.
Q2) Which of the following is a conclusion based on the studies by Meisner and Baker examining aging attitudes and involvement in preventive health behaviours?
A) Older adults with positive expectations about their aging are more likely to be physically active.
B) Older adults with positive expectations about their aging are less likely to be physically active.
C) Older adults with positive expectations about their aging are more likely to attend regular physician visits.
D) Older adults with neutral expectations about their aging are more likely to be physically active.
E) A and C
Q3) Among Canadian adults, females are consistently more active than males.
A)True B)False
Q4) Distinguish between compensation theory and selective maintenance theory.
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Chapter 13: Physical Activity and Mental Health
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Q1) In general, research has reported a ________ relationship between time spent sedentary and depression.
A) null
B) positive
C) linear
D) causal
Q2) If you were going to recommend types of exercise to promote self-esteem based on the evidence, what would you suggest?
A) stretching and weight lifting
B) some form of vigorous aerobic exercise
C) any type of aerobic exercise you enjoy
D) any of the above
Q3) Meeting recommended levels of physical activity has a protective effect for physical and mental health outcomes regardless of the time spent sedentary.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss the prevalence of mental health problems in Canada and internationally.
Q5) At this point in time, what can we safely conclude about the value of exercise in preventing depression?
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Chapter 14: Body Image in Sport and Exercise
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Q1) Low body dissatisfaction scores suggests people are satisfied and happy with their bodies.
A)True B)False
Q2) Bulimia nervosa is characterized by recurrent binge eating and purging through self-induced vomiting, laxative use, and excessive exercise.
A)True B)False
Q3) The term "muscle dysmorphia" is best described as
A) negative thoughts one's appearance and experiences of clinically significant levels of distress that impairs functioning.
B) a specified condition within body dysmorphic disorder, is a chronic preoccupation with insufficient muscularity and inadequate muscle mass.
C) preoccupation with an imagined defect in appearance, which causes severe distress and impairment in daily functioning.
D) over-exaggerated and inaccurate perceptions of flaws related to body parts and characteristics.
Q4) What is the definition of normative discontent?
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Chapter 15: Physical Activity Interventions
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Q1) Stage-targeted activity interventions are no more likely to induce changes in motivation than approaches that do not consider stages.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Task self-efficacy is confidence in one's ability to
A) overcome barriers that may arise when participating in exercise.
B) plan and organize exercise in one's life.
C) complete the components in the exercise session.
D) engage in physical activity regularly.
Q3) Interventions that work best for children
A) target the entire family.
B) highlight the health benefits of exercise.
C) include low intensity exercise.
D) include removing physical barriers.
Q4) Physical activity has been used by researchers to help individuals cope with chronic illness. Describe how exercising through cancer treatments could help individuals.
Q5) The HAPA model incorporates many of the key concepts from various theories to describe exercise behaviour. Discuss three of these key concepts.
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