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Complex Skills Quiz

12 questions sports Grades 9-12

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  1. According to the text, movement skills enable people to do what?

    • Problem-solve how the body should move
    • Increase heart rate quickly
    • Memorize rules for sports
    • Ignore obstacles entirely
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    Answer: Problem-solve how the body should move

    Source evidence

    PDF page 82: Knowledge of Kinesiology positively enhances and contributes to many types of professions, and the different types of professions require proficiency in different types of skills. Movement concepts are the cognitive, perceptual, and interpersonal components of movement. As people engage in physical activities and practice, they learn how the body can move in various ways. For example, they learn to move at different speeds and degrees of force, in various pathways, around different obstacles, and with an awareness of other people. Movement skills enable people to problem-solve how the body should move during certain activities and provide critical foundations for learning how to move in novel situations (e.g. when playing a new sport). To become proficient movers and Kinesiology professionals, people need to acquire

  2. Cognitive skills are best described as what type of skills?

    • Flexibility skills
    • Brain-based skills
    • Cardiovascular skills
    • Muscle-based skills
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    Answer: Brain-based skills

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    PDF page 82: Cognitive skills, also called cognitive functions, cognitive abilities, or cognitive capacities, are brain-based skills that are needed in the acquisition of knowledge, manipulation of information, and reasoning. They have more to do with the mechanisms of how people learn, remember, problem-solve, and pay attention, rather than with actual knowledge. Cognitive skills or functions encompass the domains of perception, attention, memory, learning, decision-making,

  3. Cognitive skills have more to do with what?

    • Physical body strength
    • Sport-specific rules
    • Mechanisms of how people learn
    • Actual knowledge stored
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    Answer: Mechanisms of how people learn

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    PDF page 82: Cognitive skills, also called cognitive functions, cognitive abilities, or cognitive capacities, are brain-based skills that are needed in the acquisition of knowledge, manipulation of information, and reasoning. They have more to do with the mechanisms of how people learn, remember, problem-solve, and pay attention, rather than with actual knowledge. Cognitive skills or functions encompass the domains of perception, attention, memory, learning, decision-making,

  4. Which domains do cognitive skills encompass?

    • Balance and coordination
    • Perception, attention, memory, learning
    • Strength and endurance
    • Speed and agility
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    Answer: Perception, attention, memory, learning

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    PDF page 82: Cognitive skills, also called cognitive functions, cognitive abilities, or cognitive capacities, are brain-based skills that are needed in the acquisition of knowledge, manipulation of information, and reasoning. They have more to do with the mechanisms of how people learn, remember, problem-solve, and pay attention, rather than with actual knowledge. Cognitive skills or functions encompass the domains of perception, attention, memory, learning, decision-making,

    PDF page 82: and language abilities.

  5. Strong perceptual-motor skills allow a person to do what?

    • Ignore body senses
    • Only improve memory
    • Avoid all physical activity
    • Receive, interpret, and use sensory info
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    Answer: Receive, interpret, and use sensory info

    Source evidence

    PDF page 82: Perceptual-motor skills are essential to all facets of physical activity. Strong perceptual-motor skills allow a person to effectively receive, interpret, and use information from all of the body’s senses. Perceptual-motor development requires an integration of sensory and motor abilities to

  6. Perceptual-motor development requires an integration of what?

    • Only motor abilities
    • Only sensory abilities
    • Sensory and motor abilities
    • Language abilities only
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    Answer: Sensory and motor abilities

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    PDF page 82: Perceptual-motor skills are essential to all facets of physical activity. Strong perceptual-motor skills allow a person to effectively receive, interpret, and use information from all of the body’s senses. Perceptual-motor development requires an integration of sensory and motor abilities to

  7. According to the text, all voluntary movement involves an element of what?

    • Perception
    • Memory loss
    • Fatigue
    • Negotiation
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    Answer: Perception

    Source evidence

    PDF page 83: carry out physical activities. All voluntary movement involves an element of perception, and

  8. What plays a vital role in all movement skills?

    • Perceptual-motor coordination
    • Verbal communication
    • Career advancement
    • Team meetings
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    Answer: Perceptual-motor coordination

    Source evidence

    PDF page 83: perceptual-motor coordination plays a vital role in all movement skills.

  9. In Kinesiology, communication is needed to explain what?

    • Only legal documents
    • Only medical prescriptions
    • Only financial reports
    • Rules, curriculum, techniques, drills
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    Answer: Rules, curriculum, techniques, drills

    Source evidence

    PDF page 83: Interpersonal or communication skills allow people to give and receive information effectively. Using, improving, and showcasing communication skills can help career advancement and the competition when searching for new jobs. Kinesiology is like any other profession in which a person needs to communicate to others and explain rules, curriculum, techniques, drills, etc.

  10. According to the text, what are soft skills described as?

    • Easily measured classroom skills
    • Technical certifications
    • How you function and interact at work
    • Industry-specific hard skills
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    Answer: How you function and interact at work

    Source evidence

    PDF page 83: Important Skills You Need to Succeed at Work (General) Whether you are a new graduate trying to figure out how to get a leg up in your career, or you’re a mid-career professional looking to secure your next promotion, you might be wondering what the most important skills you need to help you get where you want to go. While it’s, of course, important to develop your industry-specific hard skills, what’s just as critical to your success are your soft skills. Soft skills are how you function in the workplace and interact with others. And while they’re not easily taught in a classroom or measured, they are key skills that we all need to have. Additionally, in our more globalized, fast-changing work environment, there is now a premium on the kinds of soft skills that allow you to keep pace with the future of work. So, if you’re looking to accelerate your career, here are the 12 soft skills that you need to succeed ......

  11. The text says there is now a premium on what kinds of skills?

    • Physical strength skills
    • Hard skills only
    • Soft skills for the future of work
    • Memorization skills
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    Answer: Soft skills for the future of work

    Source evidence

    PDF page 83: Important Skills You Need to Succeed at Work (General) Whether you are a new graduate trying to figure out how to get a leg up in your career, or you’re a mid-career professional looking to secure your next promotion, you might be wondering what the most important skills you need to help you get where you want to go. While it’s, of course, important to develop your industry-specific hard skills, what’s just as critical to your success are your soft skills. Soft skills are how you function in the workplace and interact with others. And while they’re not easily taught in a classroom or measured, they are key skills that we all need to have. Additionally, in our more globalized, fast-changing work environment, there is now a premium on the kinds of soft skills that allow you to keep pace with the future of work. So, if you’re looking to accelerate your career, here are the 12 soft skills that you need to succeed ......

  12. According to the text, success is increasingly about what?

    • What you already know
    • Avoiding new information
    • Working only in silos
    • Adapting skills by growing knowledge
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    Answer: Adapting skills by growing knowledge

    Source evidence

    PDF page 83: fade, success is less about what you already know and more about adapting your skills by growing and expanding your knowledge base, so you can use new information and skills to respond to whatever is happening.

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