Midterm chp1-6

Question 1

What was Ancient Egypt know for ?

Answer 1

• role of leisure
• preparation
• lived life to the fullest

Question 2

What was Ancient Greece known for ?

Answer 2

• mind, body, spirit

Question 3

What was Ancient Rome known for ?

Answer 3

• class system
• games
• entertainment

Question 4

What was the Middle Ages known for ?

Answer 4

• work ethic

Question 5

What was Paliolithic known for ?

Answer 5

• cultural period of the Stone Age

* gathering and hunting

Question 6

What was the Renaissance period known for ?

Answer 6

• rebirth

Question 7

Define Leisure

Answer 7

•it’s contextual
-time, place, people
•free time, activity, state of mind

Question 8

Define recreation

Answer 8

• organized

-organized sports

Question 9

Define play

Answer 9

•spontaneous

- done for its own sake

Question 10

Freedom from vs. freedom to

Answer 10

FROM
    - routine of life
    - less satisfying 
TO 
    - choice 
    - more satisfying

Question 11

Define Schole

Answer 11

• character development ethic (Ancient Greece)

* known today as leisure

Question 12

Define Eudaimonia

Answer 12

•Aristotle- happiness is engaging in worthwhile pursuits (good actions)

Question 13

Define serious leisure

Answer 13

•systematic pursuit of an activity

    - long term commitment 
    - high standard of performance
    - instnsic motivation

Question 14

Define risk

Answer 14

• high-risk recreation

- bungee jumping, rock climbing, surfing, etc

Question 15

Categories of health/development(4)

Answer 15

• physical
• emotional
• social
• cognitive

Question 16

Define gender identity

Answer 16

• a persons private sense of, and subjective experience in, their own gender
• example of role play in social development

Question 17

What is locus of control (child-centered)

Answer 17

• the extent to which individuals believe they can control events that affect them
• important to emotional maturity

Question 18

Define Intrinsic motivation

Answer 18

•doing something for its own reason (the activity is it’s own reward)

Question 19

Define extrinsic motivation

Answer 19

• doing something for another reason, such as for status or a reward
• study of kids drawing-when extrinsic reward given they lost intrinsic motivation

Question 20

Define compensation/spillover

Answer 20

• how we look at leisure in response to work

* we enjoy or work so much that we want to do some of those things once we get home bc we enjoy it

Question 21

Autotelic

Answer 21

•intrinsic, flow theory, I do it for the satisfaction

Question 22

Categories of pleasure

Answer 22

•sensory , expressive, intellectual

Question 23

Link between spirituality and leisure

Answer 23

• means to connecting with a supreme power
• means to personal meaning
• means to connect with others

Question 24

Define culture

Answer 24

•the distinct ways the people in differnt social groups live

Question 25

Characteristics of culture

Answer 25

* learned * shared * symbols * integrated

Question 26

Culture Mechanisms of change

Answer 26

* innovation * diffusion * loss * acculturation

Question 27

define society

Answer 27

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Question 28

Define modernization

Answer 28

•a transition involving the implementation of recent techniques, methods, or ideas (Technological development)

Question 29

Define ethnocentricity

Answer 29

•the belief that ones own culture is superior in every way to all others

Question 30

Define leisure crowding

Answer 30

•a subjective and negative judgment about the number of objects (people) in a given space

Question 31

Define distance decay

Answer 31

•increase in distance that bring about decreases in most forms of behavior

Question 32

Define space-time compression

Answer 32

•process that accelerate the experience of time and thus reduce the significance of distance

Question 33

Define place attachment

Answer 33

•an emotional bond between a person and a place

Question 34

Define place identity

Answer 34

•a place provides the source of self-identification for a person

Question 35

Define management

Answer 35

Conservation, preservation, sustainable tourism

Question 36

Define conservation

Answer 36

•efficient use of natural resources over the long term

Question 37

Define preservation

Answer 37

•protection of natural resources from human damage

Question 38

Define sustainable tourism

Answer 38

•controlling visitation to tourist sites so that impact is neither permanent nor irreversible

Question 39

Define surplus energy

Answer 39

•burning up excess energy

Question 40

Define preparation

Answer 40

•practice for adult life

Question 41

Define relaxation

Answer 41

•recuperation

Question 42

Define behavioristic

Answer 42

• response to stimulus

Question 43

Define catharsis

Answer 43

•letting off emotional stimulus

Question 44

Define arousal seeking

Answer 44

•seeming optimal arousal