EXSC410 EXAM 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Developing PA Interventions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A step-by-step process of understanding behavior
and creating strategies to change physical activity.
Target Population - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The specific group you want to focus your intervention on
and why you are targeting them.
Target Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The specific behavior you want to change and not an outcome
like weight loss.
Behavioral Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Examining capability, opportunity, and motivation that
influence the behavior.
Capability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Having the physical strength, knowledge, skills, and stamina to
perform the behavior.
Opportunity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Having a supportive physical and social environment to perform
the behavior.
Motivation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Wanting to do the behavior more than competing behaviors.
COM-B Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Model stating that behavior results from capability, opportunity,
and motivation and combines constructs from multiple behavior theories.
Barriers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Factors that prevent the behavior from occurring.
Facilitators - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Factors that help the behavior occur.
Intervention Functions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Activities within an intervention designed to change
capability, opportunity, and/or motivation.
, Policy Categories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Community or system-level approaches used to support or
enact interventions.
Communication/Marketing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Using print, electronic, telephonic, or broadcast
media to promote behavior change.
Guidelines - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Documents that recommend or mandate practice.
Fiscal Measures - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Using taxes or financial incentives to influence behavior.
Regulation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Establishing rules or principles of behavior or practice.
Legislation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Making or changing laws to support behavior change.
Environmental/Social Planning - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Designing or controlling the physical or social
environment.
Service Provision - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Delivering a service to support behavior change.
Behavior Change Techniques (BCTs) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The active components of an intervention
designed to change behavior.
BCT Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅BCTs must be observable, replicable, and irreducible.
BCT Taxonomy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A standardized list of 93 behavior change techniques created by
Michie et al.
Modes of Delivery - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The way an intervention is delivered such as mass media,
technology, or face-to-face.
Developing PA Interventions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A step-by-step process of understanding behavior
and creating strategies to change physical activity.
Target Population - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The specific group you want to focus your intervention on
and why you are targeting them.
Target Behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The specific behavior you want to change and not an outcome
like weight loss.
Behavioral Analysis - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Examining capability, opportunity, and motivation that
influence the behavior.
Capability - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Having the physical strength, knowledge, skills, and stamina to
perform the behavior.
Opportunity - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Having a supportive physical and social environment to perform
the behavior.
Motivation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Wanting to do the behavior more than competing behaviors.
COM-B Model - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Model stating that behavior results from capability, opportunity,
and motivation and combines constructs from multiple behavior theories.
Barriers - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Factors that prevent the behavior from occurring.
Facilitators - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Factors that help the behavior occur.
Intervention Functions - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Activities within an intervention designed to change
capability, opportunity, and/or motivation.
, Policy Categories - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Community or system-level approaches used to support or
enact interventions.
Communication/Marketing - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Using print, electronic, telephonic, or broadcast
media to promote behavior change.
Guidelines - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Documents that recommend or mandate practice.
Fiscal Measures - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Using taxes or financial incentives to influence behavior.
Regulation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Establishing rules or principles of behavior or practice.
Legislation - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Making or changing laws to support behavior change.
Environmental/Social Planning - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Designing or controlling the physical or social
environment.
Service Provision - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅Delivering a service to support behavior change.
Behavior Change Techniques (BCTs) - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The active components of an intervention
designed to change behavior.
BCT Criteria - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅BCTs must be observable, replicable, and irreducible.
BCT Taxonomy - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅A standardized list of 93 behavior change techniques created by
Michie et al.
Modes of Delivery - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅The way an intervention is delivered such as mass media,
technology, or face-to-face.
