ISSA TRANSFORMATION SPECIALIST FINAAL PAPER
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Which is NOT a characteristic of self-transcendence? - ✔✔We experience a
heightened self-consciousness
✔✔Flow and post-traumatic growth both share: - ✔✔Growth through adversity
✔✔Epigenetic changes are _________________________. - ✔✔Persistent changes in
the way our genes express themselves
✔✔In flow and in post-traumatic growth, changes are experienced as ______________.
- ✔✔Paradoxical
✔✔Flow is intoxicating because it is the highest form of mastery over _____________. -
✔✔The self
✔✔Dopamine produced in flow is NOT associated with - ✔✔Anxiety
✔✔Which effect is flow NOT associated with? - ✔✔High levels of visual stimuli
✔✔The first step to using ESM with a client is ________________. - ✔✔To familiarize
the client with the ESM model
✔✔Which is NOT a benefit of using ESM? - ✔✔To make the client aware of her
resistance to change
✔✔Often uncovered through ESM are ____________________. - ✔✔Unanticipated
feelings about activities and unidentified feelings about change processes
✔✔Motivation is quite predictive of _________________. - ✔✔Future participation
✔✔One consistency that has been identified with ESM is that the quality of data
appears to decline after ____________________. - ✔✔Two to four weeks
✔✔Direct questions act as a ___________________. - ✔✔Behavioral priming device
✔✔Asking about an undesired behavior may lead to _________________. - ✔✔Its
increase
✔✔When descriptive experience includes information about what a person did in the
past, or is thinking about doing in the future, it is subject to ________________. -
✔✔Memory biases
, ✔✔The type of ESM used with most consistency and with most efficacy in the field of
behavioral change is ______________. - ✔✔Signal-contingent
✔✔Which is NOT a way ESM can be used to measure change? - ✔✔Weight loss
✔✔ The strongest predicator of long lasting behavioral change is - ✔✔The relationship
between the personal trainer and the client.
✔✔: Inspiring change in the client begins with - ✔✔Understanding the client on a
fundamental level.
✔✔: Research by Prochaska and colleagues has shown that interventions to change
behavior are _______________ if they are "stage-matched," that is, "matched to each
individual's stage of change". - ✔✔More effective
✔✔Which is not a factor necessary for people to change - ✔✔Someone to hold them
accountable to change
✔✔People in the pre-contemplation stage - ✔✔Minimize the risks of not changing.
✔✔In the contemplation stage people weigh the benefits and risks of change -
✔✔Equally.
✔✔Assessing the stage of change can be helped with - ✔✔Open-ended questions.
✔✔People in the pre-contemplation stage can be helped by - ✔✔Shifting the decisional
balance.
✔✔People in the action stage can be helped by - ✔✔Commitment strategies
✔✔When in the maintenance stage, which is helpful - ✔✔Assessing and managing
stressors.
✔✔The goal of the motivational interviewing coach is to - ✔✔Expose the client's
ambivalence.
✔✔Creating discrepancy through open-ended questions will - ✔✔Enhance motivation
for positive change.
✔✔Which is NOT an assumption of motivational interviewing? - ✔✔Change must begin
from outside the client.
2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Which is NOT a characteristic of self-transcendence? - ✔✔We experience a
heightened self-consciousness
✔✔Flow and post-traumatic growth both share: - ✔✔Growth through adversity
✔✔Epigenetic changes are _________________________. - ✔✔Persistent changes in
the way our genes express themselves
✔✔In flow and in post-traumatic growth, changes are experienced as ______________.
- ✔✔Paradoxical
✔✔Flow is intoxicating because it is the highest form of mastery over _____________. -
✔✔The self
✔✔Dopamine produced in flow is NOT associated with - ✔✔Anxiety
✔✔Which effect is flow NOT associated with? - ✔✔High levels of visual stimuli
✔✔The first step to using ESM with a client is ________________. - ✔✔To familiarize
the client with the ESM model
✔✔Which is NOT a benefit of using ESM? - ✔✔To make the client aware of her
resistance to change
✔✔Often uncovered through ESM are ____________________. - ✔✔Unanticipated
feelings about activities and unidentified feelings about change processes
✔✔Motivation is quite predictive of _________________. - ✔✔Future participation
✔✔One consistency that has been identified with ESM is that the quality of data
appears to decline after ____________________. - ✔✔Two to four weeks
✔✔Direct questions act as a ___________________. - ✔✔Behavioral priming device
✔✔Asking about an undesired behavior may lead to _________________. - ✔✔Its
increase
✔✔When descriptive experience includes information about what a person did in the
past, or is thinking about doing in the future, it is subject to ________________. -
✔✔Memory biases
, ✔✔The type of ESM used with most consistency and with most efficacy in the field of
behavioral change is ______________. - ✔✔Signal-contingent
✔✔Which is NOT a way ESM can be used to measure change? - ✔✔Weight loss
✔✔ The strongest predicator of long lasting behavioral change is - ✔✔The relationship
between the personal trainer and the client.
✔✔: Inspiring change in the client begins with - ✔✔Understanding the client on a
fundamental level.
✔✔: Research by Prochaska and colleagues has shown that interventions to change
behavior are _______________ if they are "stage-matched," that is, "matched to each
individual's stage of change". - ✔✔More effective
✔✔Which is not a factor necessary for people to change - ✔✔Someone to hold them
accountable to change
✔✔People in the pre-contemplation stage - ✔✔Minimize the risks of not changing.
✔✔In the contemplation stage people weigh the benefits and risks of change -
✔✔Equally.
✔✔Assessing the stage of change can be helped with - ✔✔Open-ended questions.
✔✔People in the pre-contemplation stage can be helped by - ✔✔Shifting the decisional
balance.
✔✔People in the action stage can be helped by - ✔✔Commitment strategies
✔✔When in the maintenance stage, which is helpful - ✔✔Assessing and managing
stressors.
✔✔The goal of the motivational interviewing coach is to - ✔✔Expose the client's
ambivalence.
✔✔Creating discrepancy through open-ended questions will - ✔✔Enhance motivation
for positive change.
✔✔Which is NOT an assumption of motivational interviewing? - ✔✔Change must begin
from outside the client.
