Physiology of Exercise Question Bank
Course Introduction
Physiology of Exercise explores the fundamental principles underlying how the human body responds and adapts to physical activity. The course examines the acute and chronic physiological changes in major body systems including the muscular, cardiovascular, respiratory, and endocrine systems during exercise. Students learn about energy metabolism, muscle contraction, oxygen transport, and thermoregulation, as well as the effects of different types and intensities of exercise on health and performance. The course also addresses topics such as exercise testing, training adaptations, and the physiological differences among populations, equipping students with a comprehensive understanding of how exercise influences human function and overall well-being.
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Human Motor Control 2nd Edition by David A. Rosenbaum
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Q1) Control theory arises mainly in which domain relevant to human motor control?
A) Physics
B) Statistics
C) Engineering
D) Cognitive science
Answer: C
Q2) Oculo-motor control is
A) The control of walking, running, and other forms of locomotion
B) The control of smiling, laughing, hiccupping, and other oral forms of behavior
C) The control of speech
D) The control of eye movements
Answer: D
Q3) Researchers in the field of human motor control consider variability of performance in tasks like aiming for a target to be
A) Inevitable
B) Bad and something to avoid at all costs
C) Something that cannot be analyzed
D) Both b and c
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Core Problems
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Q1) The textbook described a study in which experienced basketball players took shots at varying distances from the basket. The surprising result was that
A) They made fewer shots from the foul line than from shots closer to the basket
B) They made more shots from the foul line than from shots from farther from the basket
C) They made more shots from the foul line than would be expected by plotting number of shots made as a function of distance from the basket
D) None of the above
Answer: C
Q2) Synergies may help solve the degrees of freedom problem because
A) Synergies rid the body of sins it can commit
B) Synergies are couplings between effectors
C) Synergies are manifested through party games like rubbing the stomach and patting the head
D) None of the above
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Physiological Foundations
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Q1) Which of these elements plays a role in the stretch reflex?
A) Muscle spindles
B) Extrafusal muscle fibers
C) Intrafusal muscle fibers
D) All of the above
Answer: D
Q2) Two regions that are thought to play a role in skill learning are
A) The caudate and putamen, neither of which occupies the basal ganglia
B) The caudate and putamen, both of which occupy the basal ganglia
C) The caudate, which occupies the basal ganglia, and the putamen, which does not
D) The putamen, which occupies the basal ganglia, and the caudate, which does not
Answer: B
Q3) Patients with Parkinson's disease exhibit
A) Shaking motion at rest resting tremor
B) Slow movement initiation akinesia
C) Slow movement execution bradykinesia
D) All of the above
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Psychological Foundations
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Q1) Procedural knowledge is illustrated by _________ , whereas declarative knowledge is illustrated by ___________.
A) Knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4, riding a bicycle
B) Not knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4, later knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4
C) Knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4, later not knowing that 2 times 2 equals 4
D) None of the above
Q2) Buffers hold information
A) For more time than short-term memory does
B) For more time than long-term memory does
C) For less time than long-term memory does
D) For the same amount of time that short-term memory does and that long-term memory does
Q3) According to the uncontrolled manifold hypothesis
A) There are many ways that behavior can get out of control
B) There are many ways that behavior can unfold
C) There are many ways to fold a piece of paper
D) None of the above
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Chapter 5: Walking
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Q1) Variability of footfall positions as runners approach a jump board in long jumping increase and then decrease. This outcome has been taken to suggest that
A) Runners rely on visual feedback less and less as they approach the jump board
B) Runners rely on visual feedback more and more as they approach the jump board
C) Runners rely on visual feedback less and then more as they approach the jump board
D) Runners rely on visual feedback more and then less as they approach the jump board
Q2) As discussed in the Walking chapter,
A) EMGs in APAs benefit movement and stability
B) EMGs in APAs benefit movement but not stability
C) EMGs in APAs benefit stability but not movement
D) EMGs in APAs benefit neither movement nor stability
Q3) The idea that the physical layout of the external environment is directly specified by the optical array emanating from it is central to the theory of
A) Ecological perception
B) Route and survey maps
C) Sway
D) Anticipatory postural adjustments
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Chapter 6: Looking
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Q1) Visually fixating and tracking a moving target improves through age
A) 4-5 years
B) 6-8 years
C) 9-12 years
D) 13-17 years
Q2) Each gaze direction has a unique pitch, roll, and yaw of the eyeball. This principle is known as
A) Efferent Copy
B) Listing's Law
C) Donders' Law
D) None of the above
Q3) Saccades are made in response to ________ errors, whereas smooth pursuit eye movements are made in response to ________ errors.
A) Position, velocity
B) Velocity, position
C) Visual, nonvisual
D) Retinal stabilization, non-retinal stabilization
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Chapter 7: Reaching
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Q1) Fitts' Law has been explained at different points in history with A) The iterative corrections model
B) The impulse variability model
C) The optimized initial impulse model
D) All of the above
Q2) Which result is consistent with the two-visual system hypothesis?
A) A circle surrounded by large circles looks smaller than the same center circle surrounded by small circles
B) A disc surrounded by large discs is grasped in the same way as the same center disc surrounded by large discs
C) Damage to one part of the brain impairs object recognition but not vision for action, whereas damage to another part of the brain impairs vision for action but not object recognition
D) All of the above
Q3) During infancy, reaching and grasping typically show sensitivity to
A) Size, then distance, then direction
B) Size, then direction, then distance
C) Distance, then direction, then size
D) Direction, then distance, then size
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Chapter 8: Drawing and Writing
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Q1) When someone writes the same script using the right or left hand, the right or left foot, or the mouth with the pen held between the teeth)
A) The quality of the writing is not the same, making any other result from this study uninteresting and useless
B) The individual's style of writing is essentially the same, showing that the Freudian approach to handwriting analysis was needlessly fixated on the hand
C) The individual's style of writing is essentially the same, showing that the Freudian approach to handwriting analysis was correct because the Freudian approach stressed underlying drives
D) The individual's style of writing is essentially the same, demonstrating motor equivalence
Q2) Which of the following topics was not covered in the chapter on Drawing and Writing even though, as you think about the control of these activities, you appreciate that it might be important?
A) Allograph-graph distinctions
B) Graphology
C) Semantic influences on copying
D) Pentip pressure
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Chapter 9: Keyboarding
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Q1) In organ playing, organists may use their feet to play notes generated by pedals. Although the use of the feet was not discussed in the chapter on keyboarding, which of the following would you expect for pedal-pushing organists based on material in the chapter?
A) Times to alternate between different pedals played by one foot should be longer than times to alternate between different pedals played by two feet
B) Hierarchically organized sequences should be easier to learn than randomly organized sequences
C) Playing one pedal at a time should be easier than playing series of two-pedal chords
D) All of the above
Q2) The control of downbeats in musical performance may, but do not necessarily have to, reflect
A) Simple reactions
B) Choice reactions
C) Hierarchical timekeeping
D) Linear timekeeping
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Chapter 10: Speaking and Singing
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Q1) Contrary to what would be expected if speech perception were complete "disembodied,"
A) People take longer to move the hand out away from the body to affirm a sentence about pulling a drawer than to affirm a sentence about pushing a drawer
B) People take longer to move the hand in toward from the body to affirm a sentence about pushing a drawer than to affirm a sentence about pulling a drawer
C) Both a and b
D) None of the above
Q2) Which of these structures is above the larynx in the human body?
A) The pharynx
B) The mouth, jaws, and lips
C) The nasal tract and velum
D) All of the above
Q3) Which of the following is not one of the three subsystems of the vocal tract?
A) The coarticulation subsystem
B) The respiratory subsystem
C) The laryngeal subsystem
D) The articulatory subsystem
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Chapter 11: Smiling
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Q1) As mentioned in the textbook, infants can imitate facial expressions within the first 36 hours of life. Someone might argue, however, that if that were correct, babies wouldn't cry for unexplained reasons. The skeptic might say that babies would always smile when their adoring parents or care-givers smile at them. Hopefully, you would reply that
A) The point of the study was to show what babies mostly do, not what they always do
B) The point of the study was to show what babies can do, not what they mostly or always do
C) The point of the study was to show that only genetically superior babies smile
D) The point of the study was to show that only genetically superior parents smile
Q2) According to the James-Lange theory of emotion and the facial feedback hypothesis, a way to feel better is to
A) Take nice hot bath
B) Hold a pen between your teeth
C) Listen to uplifting music
D) Hang out with friend
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Chapter 12: Moving on
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Q1) The coordinative dynamics of two swinging limbs moved by one person turn out to be
A) Not reflected in the coordinative dynamics of two swinging limbs moved by two people
B) Reflected well in the coordinative dynamics of two swinging limbs moved by two people
C) Coordination dynamics in two people have never been studied.
D) All of the above
Q2) Steadiness of performance deteriorates, precision of performance suffers, and the capacity to pick up peripheral visual cues decreases when
A) People are intoxicated
B) People are in states of high anxiety
C) People are distracted
D) People are still learning
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