Sports Management 2

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Social networking sites

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all of the above

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Today's video gamers are typically

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all of the above

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Technology is

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how people modify the natural world to suit their own purposes

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Fidelity in simulated leisure

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b and c only

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Examples of how technology expands leisure include

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all of the above

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The issue of the goodness of technology and leisure includes debates about

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Barlow's idea of prana in cyberhood

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Technologies originally developed for scientific and military purposes have become popular leisure expressions.

T/F?

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True

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Technology developed specifically for leisure has declined recently.

T/F?

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False

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Technology in leisure creates unique identities for people.

T/F?

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True

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Geocaching is a low-tech outdoor recreation sport that does not require any special equipment.

T/F?

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False

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Today the average player of video games is younger than 18 years and plays in solo.

T/F?

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False

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The cyberhood is a virtual neighborhood formed on the Internet.

T/F?

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True

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Popular culture is

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mass leisure

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Popular culture can be characterized as

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all of the above

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High culture is

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none of the above

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Television as a universal example of popular culture

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all of the above

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Television contributes to

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the pleasure of scopophilia

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In modern industrialized societies popular culture is

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mediated entertainment

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In television watching, the phenomenon of the orienting response is

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an instinctive visual or auditory reaction to any novel stimulus

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In the book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman argues

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popular culture does not merely reflect our culture, but has become our culture

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Popular culture is characterized as inclusionary.

T/F?

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True

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Spectator sport is an example of popular culture only in the United States.

T/F?

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False

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American popular music is pluralistic.

T/F?

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True

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Television is the most frequently participated in form of mass leisure worldwide.

T/F?

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True

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Commercial entertainment is a relatively new phenomenon, originating in the U.S. in the 1950s.

T/F?

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False

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The orienting response is what keeps us reading newspapers.

T/F?

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False

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Theme parks demonstrate the mediated entertainment value of popular culture.

T/F?

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True

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Taboo recreation

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all of the above

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Formal deviance

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is behavior that violates such cultural norms as laws

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The most common form(s) of vandalism are the ones usually considered the most recreational, such as

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both c and d

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Gambling and substance abuse are taboo pastimes usually because of an ideational mentality. Ideational mentality means

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people believe a behavior is wrong

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The concept of reactive aggression usually describes

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both a and b

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The retreatist explanation for taboo recreation claims

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deviance is simply a matter of personal expression

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The concept of leisure boredom

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occurs when people feel they cannot escape a meaningless leisure routine

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The label "taboo" can be considered behavior that is considered wrong by social custom.

T/F?

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True

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Laws against taboo recreation are primarily morally derived.

T/F?

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True

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Prole leisure is the result of leisure boredom.

T/F?

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False

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Problem gambling is increasingly significant in American society.

T/F?

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True

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The theory of anomie claims taboo recreation is the result of learning from peers.

T/F?

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False

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The theory of differential association maintains that delinquent behavior is a self-expressive lifestyle.

T/F?

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False

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Workaholism

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is unhealthy

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The concept of central life interest

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demonstrates that work seems to be weakening as a central interest in life

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Homo faber, translated from Latin, suggests that people are essentially

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workers

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Consumption

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a and c only

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Positive economic benefits from leisure includes

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all of the above

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Economically speaking, leisure expressions reflect a society's

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all of the above

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The cyclical life plan organizes schooling, work, and leisure into a linear path that remains constant across the life span.

T/F?

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False

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Downshifting is to simplify one's expectations or commitments especially in work hours.

T/F?

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True

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Based on the amount of paid annual leave and paid public holiday standards we can conclude that cultures such as the United States contain biases toward "long hour jobs".

T/F?

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True

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Leisure is a mirror of a nation's level of economic development and its economic system.

T/F?

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True

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The desire and ability to purchase leisure goods and services is decreasing as modern economies suffer more recessions.

T/F?

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False

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Linder's concept of the "harried leisure class" suggests that owning more and more material possessions will bring happiness.

T/F?

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False

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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

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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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kinesthetic

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Place attachment in leisure can be motivated by

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place identity

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Conservation is

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the most efficient use of natural resources over the long term

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

T/F?

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False

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

T/F?

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True

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

T/F?

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False

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Strong leisure place attachment contributes to our self-identity.

T/F?

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True

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

T/F?

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False

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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

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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

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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

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Equity is

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fairness

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Ethnicity is

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all of the above

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Leisure contraints

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a and b

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In developed countries the differences between men's and women's use of leisure have

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narrowed

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Inclusive leisure services for persons with disabilities are based on the principle(s) of

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all of the above

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In Park's early thesis about marginality

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a and b

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Even though leisure is not yet equitable, it has the potential of providing equality of opportunity.

T/F?

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True

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Intrapersonal constraints to leisure predispose people to define leisure activities as appropriate or inappropriate.

T/F?

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True

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Interpersonal constraints to leisure predispose people to define leisure activities as appropriate or inappropriate.

T/F?

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False

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Inclusion is valuing all people regardless of their differences.

T/F?

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True

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In a continuum of leisure inclusion, the highest level is physical-access to buildings and programs.

T/F?

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False

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Some critics consider special gay and lesbian focused sports, travel, and events to promote discrimination.

T/F?

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True