Exam 1 Quizzes
The three different leisure patterns of "empty-nest" adults include
turning back to the partnership and enjoying more leisure, seeking new and separate social groups, and pouring themselves into greater work engagements, thus continuing to restrict leisure time
Among the happiest countries researched in the world was
Denmark
True or False? During the Renaissance period, leisure was banned in favor of a work ethic.
False
True or False? On an average day, adults laugh up to 100 times.
False
True or False? The concept of "communitas" means perceived freedom.
False
A key founder of the Hull House in Chicago was
Jane Addams
The Middle Ages
set the stage for the birth of a "work ethic"
This theory is defined by "letting off emotional steam."
Catharsis
The theory of anti-structure
Is based on the idea of rituals in people's lives, says that leisure is outside of the everyday norm, and comes from the field of anthropology
The compensatory explanation of leisure
NOT maintains that if work is enjoyable, leisure will become an extension of it, describes how people regularly shift between psychological states, or was developed by Csikszentmihalyi
People usually ride roller coasters with what kind of motivation?
Paratelic and Autic
This leisure activity relieves stress, improves the immune system, and generally restores us for our work or school tasks.
Relaxation
Eating and listening to music is a type of
Sensory Pleasure
A long-term commitment to developing a recreation skill, a high standard of performance for a recreation pursuit, and self-definition through a recreation pursuit is a leisure concept called:
Serious Leisure
"Play" has several theories, including:
Surplus energy, catharsis, relaxation, and mastering disterbing events or thoughts
True or False? "Ludi" in ancient Rome means public games.
True
True or False? In much of ancient history, leisure was differently experienced according to social class.
True
True or False? Industrialization changed the nature of work itself by taking it out of the home and workshop, and putting it into the factory.
True
True or False? Mannell's self-as-entertainment theory is based on individual personality difference in the ability to fill free time meaningfully.
True
True or False? More than 50% of American adults are single.
True
True or False? Over the past two decades, children in North America have lost eight hours of free, unstructured, and spontaneous play a week.
True
Demography
includes such information as age, gender ethnicity, race, and income and mixes together within the concept of lifestyle
Flow
is a balance between perceived challenges and perceived skills and is a condition where one can lose track of time
Impressionism
is a style of art that presents an immediate "impression" of an object or event, tries to show what the eye sees at a glance, so the image seems spontaneous, and for artists exhibiting in Paris around the late 1800s was useful in depicting everyday, life-particularly pastimes.
Locus of control
is our own perception about the source of power in our lives, includes external and internal controls, can be developed through leisure, and is important to emotional maturity
Autonomy
is typically developed in teens through social leisure experiences
In ancient Greece, the "leisure ideal" meant .
leisure can ignoble us by way of making right choices and schole
The spillover explanation of leisure
maintains that if work is enjoyable, leisure will become an extension of it.
Infant's play is characterized as
nonsocial/solitary and individualistic
The famous psychologist, Piaget, discovered
play was important to the intellectual development of children
Keeping mentally sharp can be aided by
playing board games and card games, joining a book club, learning new hobbies, and being physically active
Broadly defined, "well-being" is the dynamic process that ensures people
possess a sense of individual vitality, are able to undertake activities that are meaningful, engaging, and which make them feel competent and autonomous, have a stock of resources to help them be resilient to changes and circumstances not under their immediate control, have lives that incorporate leisure in the development and maintenance of health across the life span.
In contemporary society, leisure may be defined as
recreational behaviors and interests, psychological qualities such as freedom of choice, intrinsic motivation, and pleasure, and unobligated time left over from work
The concept of "core plus balance" suggests
there is both a persistent core and a balancing variety in our pastimes across the life span
Pure leisure is described by
Intrinsic motivation and doing something for its own reason
Research has indicated that gender identity is formed in part during leisure via gender messages conveyed by
Parent, peers, institutions, and mass media
Risky activity can have what kind of risks?
Physical, Emotional, and Social
Theories that attempt to explain leisure behavior
are multidisciplinary in nature, still do not explain all leisure behavior, and continue to be tested and revised
To Aristotle, eudaimonia described happiness as
based on doing moral activities
Leisure meanings in humanities
can be found in art, music, and literature
