Chapter 1: Making Personal Wellness Choices and Changing Wellness Behaviors

Which of the following is the best specific, time-oriented goal for exercise?

I'll run 3 miles in 30 minutes by mid-July.

(T/F) The transtheoretical model divides behavioral change into chronological stages.

T

Going for a walk instead of eating dessert is an example of

countering

Sue derives satisfaction and self-esteem from her job, so she is experiencing a high level of ________ wellness.

emotional

Which of the following is a component of emotional wellness?

good self-esteem

Physical inactivity contributes to which of the following health conditions?

heart disease

Learning a second language is most likely to improve ________ wellness.

intellectual

Attempting to double the amount of weight you can bench press in the space of a month is an example of which barrier to change?

overambitious goals

Your friend is morbidly obese. When you express your concern to him about his health, he denies that his obesity will have any effect on his health and cites the example of his father, who is also obese and apparently healthy. Which stage of behavior change is your friend in regarding his obesity?

precontemplation

Your Uncle Jim quit smoking 3 months ago, but today, in a moment of weakness, accepted and smoked a cigarette offered to him by a friend. Which stage of behavior change best describes this example?

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