Midterm chp1-6 Flashcards
What was Ancient Egypt know for ?
- role of leisure
- preparation
- lived life to the fullest
What was Ancient Greece known for ?
• mind, body, spirit
What was Ancient Rome known for ?
- class system
- games
- entertainment
What was the Middle Ages known for ?
• work ethic
What was Paliolithic known for ?
- cultural period of the Stone Age
* gathering and hunting
What was the Renaissance period known for ?
• rebirth
Define Leisure
•it’s contextual
-time, place, people
•free time, activity, state of mind
Define recreation
• organized
-organized sports
Define play
•spontaneous
- done for its own sake
Freedom from vs. freedom to
FROM
- routine of life
- less satisfying
TO
- choice
- more satisfyingDefine Schole
- character development ethic (Ancient Greece)
* known today as leisure
Define Eudaimonia
•Aristotle- happiness is engaging in worthwhile pursuits (good actions)
Define serious leisure
•systematic pursuit of an activity
- long term commitment
- high standard of performance
- instnsic motivation
Define risk
• high-risk recreation
- bungee jumping, rock climbing, surfing, etc
Categories of health/development(4)
- physical
- emotional
- social
- cognitive
Define gender identity
- a persons private sense of, and subjective experience in, their own gender
- example of role play in social development
What is locus of control (child-centered)
- the extent to which individuals believe they can control events that affect them
- important to emotional maturity
Define Intrinsic motivation
•doing something for its own reason (the activity is it’s own reward)
Define extrinsic motivation
- doing something for another reason, such as for status or a reward
- study of kids drawing-when extrinsic reward given they lost intrinsic motivation
Define compensation/spillover
- 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
Autotelic
•intrinsic, flow theory, I do it for the satisfaction
Categories of pleasure
•sensory , expressive, intellectual
Link between spirituality and leisure
- means to connecting with a supreme power
- means to personal meaning
- means to connect with others
Define culture
•the distinct ways the people in differnt social groups live
Characteristics of culture
- learned
- shared
- symbols
- integrated
Culture Mechanisms of change
- innovation
- diffusion
- loss
- acculturation
define society
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Define modernization
•a transition involving the implementation of recent techniques, methods, or ideas
(Technological development)
Define ethnocentricity
•the belief that ones own culture is superior in every way to all others
Define leisure crowding
•a subjective and negative judgment about the number of objects (people) in a given space
Define distance decay
•increase in distance that bring about decreases in most forms of behavior
Define space-time compression
•process that accelerate the experience of time and thus reduce the significance of distance
Define place attachment
•an emotional bond between a person and a place
Define place identity
•a place provides the source of self-identification for a person
Define management
Conservation, preservation, sustainable tourism
Define conservation
•efficient use of natural resources over the long term
Define preservation
•protection of natural resources from human damage
Define sustainable tourism
•controlling visitation to tourist sites so that impact is neither permanent nor irreversible
Define surplus energy
•burning up excess energy
Define preparation
•practice for adult life
Define relaxation
•recuperation
Define behavioristic
• response to stimulus
Define catharsis
•letting off emotional stimulus
Define arousal seeking
•seeming optimal arousal
