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Midterm chp1-6 Flashcards

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What was Ancient Egypt know for ?

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  • role of leisure
  • preparation
  • lived life to the fullest
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What was Ancient Greece known for ?

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• mind, body, spirit

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What was Ancient Rome known for ?

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  • class system
  • games
  • entertainment
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What was the Middle Ages known for ?

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• work ethic

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What was Paliolithic known for ?

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  • cultural period of the Stone Age

* gathering and hunting

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6
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What was the Renaissance period known for ?

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• rebirth

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Define Leisure

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

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Define recreation

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• organized

-organized sports

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Define play

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•spontaneous

- done for its own sake

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Freedom from vs. freedom to

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

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  • character development ethic (Ancient Greece)

* known today as leisure

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Define Eudaimonia

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

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Define serious leisure

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•systematic pursuit of an activity

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

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• high-risk recreation

- bungee jumping, rock climbing, surfing, etc

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Categories of health/development(4)

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  • physical
  • emotional
  • social
  • cognitive
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Define gender identity

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  • a persons private sense of, and subjective experience in, their own gender
  • example of role play in social development
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What is locus of control (child-centered)

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

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

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Define extrinsic motivation

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  • doing something for another reason, such as for status or a reward
  • study of kids drawing-when extrinsic reward given they lost intrinsic motivation
20
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Define compensation/spillover

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  • 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

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Autotelic

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

22
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Categories of pleasure

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•sensory , expressive, intellectual

23
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Link between spirituality and leisure

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

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•the distinct ways the people in differnt social groups live

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Characteristics of culture

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  • learned
  • shared
  • symbols
  • integrated
26
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Culture Mechanisms of change

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  • innovation
  • diffusion
  • loss
  • acculturation
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define society

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•

28
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Define modernization

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

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Define ethnocentricity

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

30
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Define leisure crowding

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

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Define distance decay

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

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Define space-time compression

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

33
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Define place attachment

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•an emotional bond between a person and a place

34
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Define place identity

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

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Define management

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Conservation, preservation, sustainable tourism

36
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Define conservation

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•efficient use of natural resources over the long term

37
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Define preservation

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•protection of natural resources from human damage

38
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Define sustainable tourism

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

39
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Define surplus energy

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•burning up excess energy

40
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Define preparation

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•practice for adult life

41
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Define relaxation

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•recuperation

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Define behavioristic

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• response to stimulus

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Define catharsis

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•letting off emotional stimulus

44
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Define arousal seeking

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•seeming optimal arousal

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