Exam 1, RPTM 120 - lesson 2
What is leisure? - correct answer ✔An activity chosen in relative freedom for
its qualities of satisfaction (personal satisfaction)
What are the 4 components of leisure? - correct answer ✔1. Activity
2. Free time
3. Motivation
4. State of mind
What are characteristics of leisure as activity? - correct answer ✔- Universal
- Non-productive
- Not limited to physical activity
What are two parts of leisure as free time? - correct answer ✔- Freedom
from (escaping obligations)
- Freedom to (choices)
What does "licere" mean in latin? - correct answer ✔To be free
What are two types of leisure as motivation? - correct answer ✔1. Intrinsic
2. Extrinsic
What is intrinsic motivation? - correct answer ✔Self motivated (pull)
,What is extrinsic motivation? - correct answer ✔Motivated by others (push)
What are two parts of leisure as state of mind? - correct answer ✔1.
Existential condition
2. Mindset
What is the definition of recreation? - correct answer ✔- Voluntary activity
that is opposite to work and occurs during leisure
- Provides pleasure/satisfaction
- Restores us mentally and physically
- Organized for the good of individual and society
Recreation is dependent on what for its meaning? - correct answer ✔Work
The value of leisure is determined by what? - correct answer ✔Participant
Recreation is supported by who? - correct answer ✔Society
What is deviant leisure? - correct answer ✔Recreation as resistance to the
dominant culture
What are the key characteristics of play? - correct answer ✔- Appears
purposeless
- Voluntary
- Inherent attraction
- Absorbing
- Spontaneous
, - Improvisational potential
- Continuation desire
Play is usually associated with what? - correct answer ✔Children or child like
attitude
What is necessary to understand play? - correct answer ✔Emotion
What is neoteny? - correct answer ✔Retaining juvenile characteristics into
adulthood, helps maintain mental plasticity and allows us to continue to
develop
What does homo ludens mean? - correct answer ✔Playing man
What are the 4 forms of play? - correct answer ✔1. Vertigo/sensory
alteration
2. Games of chance
3. Mimicry, imitation, make believe
4. Competition
What is flow? - correct answer ✔A state of optimal experience that occurs
when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to
accomplish something difficult or worthwhile
Do you experience pleasure or enjoyment from flow? - correct answer
✔Enjoyment
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the pioneer of positive psychology and introduced
what idea? - correct answer ✔The idea of flow