Chapter 10 Flashcards
What is the definition of socialisation?
Acquiring the skills and rules to enable an individual to successfully interact with other individuals or within a community.
What is definition of Play?
An activity that is undertaken purely for enjoyment or amusement and has no other objectives
What is the definition of Leisure?
Time during which you have no obligations to work or family, and are free to engage in self-directed and chosen activities.
What is the definition of recreation?
Engaged in activities that refresh, relax or enable the recreation of oneself after the rigours of work or day to day life.
What is the definition of Physical Recreation?
Engaged in physical activity to refresh, relax or recreate after the rigours of work or day to day life.
What is the definition of Active Leisure?
Activities that can be undertaken in their normal form, or sometimes as an adapted form, all the way through an individual’s lifetime.
What’s the definition of Outdoor Recreation?
Recreation that takes place and uses the natural environment.
What is the definition of Adventure Activity?
A form of outdoor recreation that involves a degree of challenge and risk. The level of challenge or risk is determined by the nature of the environment and the experience of participant.
What is the definition of Adventure Education?
An adventure activity that is undertaken as part of a school or educational programme, with educational objectives.
What is the definition of Outdoor Education?
School work, lessons or curriculum activity that takes place in the natural environment.
What is the definition of sport?
Sports are institutionalised competitive activities that invoke vigorous physical exertion or the use of relatively complex skills by individuals whose participation is motivated by a combination of intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
What is the definition of perceived risk?
The participant believes themselves to be at risk or in some form of danger. Linked to the performers level of experience and skill. Sometimes known as subjective risk/danger.
What is the definition of actual risk?
The situation carriers a level of risk of danger regardless of the skill of experience of the participant. Sometimes known as objective risk.
What is the Mortlock experience-risk continuum?
The continuum between the two extremes of risk.
What are the categories of sport?
Dance, Games, Gymnastics activities, Swimming and water safety, Athletic and Outdoor and adventurous activities.
