Chapter 3
Abilities represent our skill level for performing a physical activity as a result of learning that occurs with practice.
False.
Personal attributes that influence physical activity experiences include things such as how much money a person has and where that person lives.
False.
Participating in high school and college sports is likely to cause people to be physically active as adults.
Fasle.
Which of these could be a characteristic of training?
It is intended to overcome limitations in strength, endurance, or flexibility.
Choose the statement that best describes open skills.
The movements used to perform the kill vary depending on the environmental factors.
Open skills are those that require performers to coordinate their movements to a changing environment during the execution of a task.
True.
Our individual reactions to the events and feelings associated with physical activity are part of our subjective experiences.
True.
Our physical activity preferences reflect something unique about us as individuals.
True.
In general, what happens to the amount of physical activity engaged in as one ages?
With age, physical activity participation decreases.
What is the key to improving our physical activity performances?
accumulating physical activity experiences.
The components of health-related fitness include all of the following EXCEPT
agility
Which of the following correctly describes an underachiever?
an individual who has much ability but fails to practice or train
Humans differ from animals because humans
can match their movements to much more complex internal plans
Physical training results in___that improves____.
conditioning;health.
A generalist is one who
has acquired low to moderate proficiency in a relatively large number of physical activities
Which of the following would be considered a closed rather than an open skill?
hitting a baseball off a tee
Which of the following is a characteristic of training?
improvement in fitness
Two broad areas influence one's physical activity experiences. Which of the following is NOT an influence?
knowledge about the benefits of physical activity.
The principe of quality stipulates that, all other things being equal, increasing the frequency of our engagement with the critical components of an activity.
leads to increases of an activity.
Practicing a skill is most likely to bring about which of the following?
learning
Activity experience is defined in the text as
our actual physical performances or observations of physical activity.
What do the terms emotions, cognition, dispositions, knowledge, and meanings reflect?
our subjective physical activity experiences.
The type of experience necessary to produce changes in a skill is called____ and the relatively permanent changes are called____.
practice; learning
Experiences that engage us in the critical components of an activity and that are most likely to improve our capacity to perform that activity reflect what type of experience?
principle of quality
The principle of quality refers to
the importance of selecting the correct type of practice
The influence that parents' activity level has on a child's involvement in physical activity is an example of
their social environment
