Chapter 14: Developing an Infrastructure to Support Physical Activity and Healthy Lifestyles
True/False
1. The fragmentation of the profession of health, physical education, and recreation has been the direct result of specialization within the respective fields.
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2. Recreation programs are considered a necessary part of an overall, quality lifestyle, and an active, healthy, leisure life is thought to have restorative power.
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3. One of the factors in the growth of recreation and leisure services has been the willingness of people to spend discretionary income on these pastimes.
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4. In the past several decades, Americans from all income brackets have taken health more seriously than ever before.
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5. Americans are living longer, and the “senior” age group is becoming a strong political and social force in American society.
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6. The school health education program has grown steadily more important and increasingly separate from physical education.
Ans: T
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7. Estimates are that more than three-fourths of all American corporations provide employee recreation and fitness programs.
Page: 312
8. School health educators are certified and licensed to teach in the same way all teachers are.
Page: 312
9. Most physical education teachers have traditionally had little or no dance training and as a result have been reluctant to teach it.
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10. Folk and ballet remain the two strongest dance forms in college and university dance departments.
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Multiple Choice
11. The NCPPA represents:
a. National Collegiate Professional Players Association
b. National Coalition for Promoting Physical Activity
c. North Carolina Parental Participation Act
d. North Carolina Purposeful Play Association
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12. Most Physical Activity Programs are delivered at the _______ level.
a. local
b. state
c. national
d. global
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13. Activities or experiences chosen voluntarily and done during leisure time for the satisfaction they provide are categorized as:
a. physical education.
b. recreation.
c. sport.
d. fitness.
Page: 307 and 308
14. Health professionals have shifted from a previous _____________ approach to a ______________ approach.
a. remedial, preventative
b. individual, wellness
c. wellness, remedial
d. preventative, individual
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15. Which of the following seems to be a significant human activity in virtually every culture?
a. physical education
b dance
c. athletics
d. recreation
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16. Which form of dance is the strongest at the college/university level?
a. jazz
b. folk
c. modern
d. social
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17. Which of the following models has had the greatest influence on dance within the elementary school curriculum?
a. play education
b. adventure education
c. movement education
d. sport education
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Essay
18. Why did AAHPER change from the American Association of HPER to the American Alliance of HPER?
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19. If lifespan sport, fitness, and physical education are to become more common within a larger percentage of the population, what must happen first?
Page: 309
20. Why have physical educators been reluctant to teach dance?
Page: 314