Kines Final Exam Questions And Answers

Physiology - Answer- How the body works to live Exercise phys - Answer- study of how these functions are altered when exposed to acute and chronic bouts of exercise acute exercise - Answer- changes that occur during a single bout of exercise chronic exercise - Answer- how the body alters in structure and function in response to regular exercise What do physiologists focus on? - Answer- From organ systems to the cells and molecules Aspects of research - Answer- reliable, valid, sample, statistic, utility Reliability - Answer- consistency of results validity - Answer- measures what its supposed to measure Sample - Answer- drawn from a population, subset of the original statstic - Answer- descriptive (single variable) inferential (multiple variables) utility - Answer- does it actually matter? Exercise Science (Raffin) 3 aspects - Answer- umbrella term involving physical activity, exercise, sport & athletic performance Exercise science characteristics - Answer- movement of the body and adaptions to movements (acute and chronic) Biomechanics history. what did archimedes discover? - Answer- levers, a machine to gain mechanical advantage what did galen discover? - Answer- muscles cause movement newtons 1st law of motion - Answer- inertia. an object at rest will stay at rest what does newtons 1st law depend on? - Answer- mass and where the mass is concentrated with respect to the axis of movement (k) what did muybridge discover? - Answer- motion analysis. records and analyzes joint movements during activities