Understanding Flashcards
Built environments
Areas that have been created or modified by people and include buildings, parks and transport systems
Postive and negatives of Built environments
Positives include : Acessable for humans
Negatives include: Changes the natural environment
Mother nature
The Earth’s biosphere – all of the living things on
Earth and the processes and systems that are part
of, or related to, these living things
Motivations for participating in outdoor experiences
Competence/mastery
Stimulus Avoidance
Socialisation
Cognitive reward
Intrinsic motivations
Motivations that we get from within ourselves
Extrinsic motivations
Motivations we
get from outside
ourselves, which are
external to us
Facilitation of Safe Participation in OE.
considertionds of outdoor environment
Competence/ mastery
Examples of this type of motivation include:
* being the first to achieve something (e.g. climbing Mount Everest)
* building strength through participating in the experience
* being competent in the activity
* setting a record or other achievement (e.g. ‘bagging’ a peak).
Stimulus avoidance
This type of motivation is a type of negative reinforcement. This is where we do something because
it helps us to avoid something else. Examples of this type of motivation include:
* participating in outdoor experiences as an escape from aspects of our everyday life (e.g. ‘getting
away from it all’)
* the health and wellbeing we get from participation
* being on our own.
socialisation
This type of motivation is about the social benefits we get from participating in outdoor experiences.
Examples of this type of motivation include:
* personal and social development
* the feeling of community from doing things with other people
* the feeling of growth and independence.
cognitive reward
This type of motivation is about the mental rewards we get from participating in an outdoor experience.
Examples of this type of motivation include:
* learning something new
* achieving something new, different or risky
* obtaining an adrenalin rush
* experiencing ‘flow’
* proving something to yourself or others
* seeking transcendence.
Urban environments
Areas of permanent
infrastructure
designed to support
higher population
densities such as
cities and towns