Sports Management

Front 1

Leisure meanings in the humanities

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can be found in art, music, and literature

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Impressionism in art

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a and c only

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In ancient Greece, "leisure ideal" meant

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Need answer

Front 4

What is the dominant type of sport participation in Europe, Latin America, and North Africa?

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Try out for the Sluggers, a regional club baseball team

Front 5

The Middle Ages

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Need answer

Front 6

Leisure defined as a psychological condition means:

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Need answer

Front 7

When leisure is defined as recreational activity

- it is how we use our free time in nonwork actions

- it can be counted and compared across different population groups

- it is completely contextual

- a and b

- None of the above

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a and b

Front 8

Leisure can perhaps be best understood through the ideas portrayed in a story, a song, and a painting.

T/F?

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True

Front 9

Ludi to ancient Romans meant public games.

T/F?

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True

Front 10

In much of history, leisure was differently experienced according to social class.

T/F?

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True

Front 11

During the Renaissance period, leisure was banned in favor of a work ethic.

T/F?

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False

Front 12

Teddy Roosevelt was the “father of the American playground movement.”

T/F?

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False

Front 13

Jane Addams is known for the establishment of the Hull House Settlement in Chicago.

T/F?

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True

Front 14

The special attitude definition of leisure has led to opportunities for comparing leisure expression in different cultures.

T/F?

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False

Front 15

The free time definition of leisure has led to opportunities for comparing leisure expression in different cultures.

T/F?

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True

Front 16

According to Neulinger’s ideas about leisure, “pure” leisure

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None of the above

Front 17

The idea of freedom “to”

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b and c only

Front 18

According to the writings of Bregha, freedom in leisure requires

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all of the above

Front 19

To Aristotle, eudaimonia described happiness as

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based on doing moral activities

Front 20

The type(s) of pleasure found in leisure are

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all of the above

Front 21

The type of play required in a game may be

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all of the above

Front 22

A long-term commitment to developing a recreation skill, a high standard of performance for a recreational pursuit, and self-definition through a recreation pursuits is a leisure concept called:

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serious leisure

Front 23

The deliberate use of risk is

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b and c only

Front 24

Intrinsic meaning is the reason for doing something is the satisfaction gained from doing it.

T/F?

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True

Front 25

The ancient Greek idea of hedonism holds that pleasure is the highest goal of life.

T/F?

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True

Front 26

The competence-effectance theory says that children play to practice skills needed for adult life.

T/F?

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False

Front 27

Games represent a synthetic counterpart to real life.

T/F>

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True

Front 28

Along with make-believe and daydreaming, humor and laughter are types of daily leisure.

T/F?

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True

Front 29

According to leisure scholar Doug Kleiber, leisure is simply being appreciative, contemplative, and peaceful.

T/F?

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True

Front 30

In contemporary societies, we no longer value the leisure quality of relaxation, but rather feel we must be active and productive in leisure.

T/F?

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False

Front 31

From the perspective of the leisure quality of solitude, leisure can be considered a form of narcissism.

T/F?

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True

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Demography

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a and c only

Front 33

Theories that attempt to explain leisure behavior

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all of the above

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The compensatory explanation of leisure behavior

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Need answer

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The spillover explanation of leisure behavior

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Need answer

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Self-as-entertainment theory

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Focuses on personality as a basis for leisure choices

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Symbolic interactionism

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Describes how people interact with each other via symbols

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The theory of anti-structure

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Need answer

Front 39

Leisure is declining as a consideration when choosing where we will live.

T/F?

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False

Front 40

Examples of demographic factors that explain leisure behavior include age and gender.

T/F?

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True

Front 41

Determining people’s lifestyle types has been rejected by marketing strategies as too weak a predictor of people’s behavior.

T/F?

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False

Front 42

According to Wilensky, leisure interests and choices are either a continuation of, or a contrast to, work interests and choices.

T/F?

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True

Front 43

Csikszentmihalyi’s autotelic concept means intrinsic motivation.

T/F?

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True

Front 44

Mannell’s self-as-entertainment theory is based on individual personality differences in the ability to fill freetime meaningful.

T/F?

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True

Front 45

Reversal theory explains leisure behavior similarly to Wilensky’s compensation theory ideas.

T/F?

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False

Front 46

The concept of communitas means perceived freedom.

T/F?

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False

Front 47

Broadly defined, “well-being” is the dynamic process that ensures people

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all of the above

Front 48

The concept of “core plus balance” suggests

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there is both a persistent core and a balancing variety in our pastimes across the life span

Front 49

Infant’s play is characterized as

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a and b only

Front 50

Research has indicated that gender identity is formed in part during leisure via gender messages conveyed by

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all of the above

Front 51

The famous psychologist, Piaget, discovered

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play was important to the intellectual development of children

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Autonomy

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is typically developed in teens through social leisure experiences

Front 53

Keeping mentally sharp can be aided by

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all of the above

Front 54

According to a study of post retirement leisure behavior reported in “The Study Says” box 4.2

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a and b only

Front 55

Life’s longevity is helped by an active and meaningful lifestyle in adulthood.

T/F?

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True

Front 56

According to the World Health Organization health is the absence of disease or infirmity.

T/F?

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False

Front 57

Over the past two decades, children in North American have significantly decreased physical play and replaced it with increased amounts of passive play.

T/F?

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True

Front 58

Being a part of a well-defined friendship group is developmentally important at only the young adult stage of life.

T/F?

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False

Front 59

In spite of changes in the nature and types of family today, the family remains the most common leisure companion throughout the life span.

T/F?

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True

Front 60

For the oldest adults, leisure is often the sole connection to the social world.

T/F?

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True

Front 61

Leisure contributes to positive emotional health, and not to the development of negative emotions.

T/F?

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False

Front 62

When we consider leisure anthropologically,

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all of the above

Front 63

Characteristics of culture include

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shared

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The process of enculturation through leisure occurs when

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the leisure pursuit is transmitted from one generation to the next

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Cultural change through leisure occurs from

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all of the above

Front 66

Contrary to the standard view, data by Sahlins suggest that prehistoric people

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a and c only

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Ethnocentricity

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is the belief that one’s own culture is superior to others

Front 68

Postmodernism is

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a breakdown of old certainties and standards due to modernity

Front 69

To characterize a culture as integrated means that all parts of a culture, including leisure, are interrelated.

T/F?

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True

Front 70

Economic development not only improves an area’s standard of living, but is usually also able to enhance a culture’s uniqueness.

T/F?

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False

Front 71

Within the past several decades tourism has been used as part of economic development strategies in most countries.

T/F?

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True

Front 72

Acculturation is the same anthropological process as enculturation.

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False

Front 73

Leisure in technological cultures is equated with materialism and consumerism.

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True

Front 74

The acceptance of increased screen time that has contributed to a decline in children's active free play is an example of cultural loss.

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True

Front 75

Leisure’s distribution in space differs according to

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all of the above

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Increases in distance that bring about decreases in most forms of leisure behavior is

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distance decay

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Urban sprawl is

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a and b only

Front 78

The park type that requires the least amount of travel time and distance to use is the

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mini-park

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Attaching strong sentiment to leisure places comes from our _____ senses.

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all of the above

Front 80

Place attachment in leisure can be motivated by

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crowding

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Conservation is

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the most efficient use of natural resources over the long term

Front 82

Research has found that crowding is a perception based on geographical patterns.

T/F?

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False

Front 83

Crowding in leisure places is in part determined by the personal characteristics of the visitors.

T/F?

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True

Front 84

Distance decay is a concept that suggests smells are place related.

T/F?

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False

Front 85

Strong leisure place attachment contributes to our self-identity.

T/F?

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True

Front 86

Place identity is a person’s functional association with a place

T/F?

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False

Front 87

Sustainable tourism attempts to control visitation to tourist sites in order to conserve the natural integrity of the sites

T/F?

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True

Front 88

Without wise management many leisure expressions will be lost due to the demise of leisure space and place resources.

T/F?

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True

Front 89

One of the properties of leisure space is pattern which is the frequency with which something occurs in space.

T/F?

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False