*Chapter 4: Behavioral Coaching Summary

Question 1

Which behavior change technique allows individuals to identify external triggers that lead them to behave in certain ways?

• Coping planning
• Enlisting social support
• Self-monitoring
• Action planning

Answer 1

Answer: Self-monitoring

side note: Coping planning involves identifying barriers and making plans to work around them.

Question 2

What term is defined as the generic modifiable factors that impact behavior?

• Behavior change techniques
• Self-efficacy
• Attitudes
• Determinants

Answer 2

Answer: Determinants

side note: Behavior change techniques is what is used to modify the factors that cause behavior.

Question 3

When a person is thinking about implementing change but has not yet taken any steps to get started, what stage of change are they likely in?

• Maintenance
• Contemplation
• Precontemplation
• Action

Answer 3

Contemplation
(For people in the contemplation stage, the pros and cons of change may be in balance, causing ambivalence.)

Question 4

A client has thoughts that they cannot exercise on their own, that they look silly doing it, and that other people are watching them. They believe these thoughts to be true. What is occurring?

• Cognitive fusion
• Stopping
• Reverse listing
• Acceptance

Answer 4

Cognitive fusion
(This is when a person believes the content of their thoughts to be true and can be problematice with negative self-talk)

Question 5

Which behavior change technique allows individuals to identify external triggers that lead them to behave in certain ways?

• Self-monitoring
• Enlisting social support
• Coping planning
• Action planning

Answer 5

Self-monitoring
(Self-monitoring is a strategy that allows clients to get the information they need to evaluate their goals.)

Question 6

A Certified Personal Trainer wants to improve a client’s outcome expectations for resistance training. What behavior change technique might they use?

• Helping make the exercises fun
• Helping them make a plan
• Improving their confidence for their technique
• Providing information on the health benefits

Answer 6

Providing information on the health benefits
(Providing information on the health benefits is one way to target outcome expectations.)

Question 7

Individuals in this stage of change may sporadically engage in physical activity but without any form, structure, or consistency.

Preparation
Contemplation
Precontemplation
Maintenance

Answer 7

Answer: Preparation

side note: people in contemplation have not yet begun to exercise.