RPTM 120 Exam 1 PSU Question and answers verified to pass
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RPTM 120 Exam 1 PSU Question and answers verified to pass RPTM 120 Exam 1 PSU
School - correct answer The Greeks used the terms scol, schole, or skole to define leisure.
This eventually came to mean what English word?
Leisure
-Hard to define, but can be seen as activity, state of mind/...
RPTM 120 Exam 1 PSU
School - correct answer ✔The Greeks used the terms scol, schole, or skole
to define leisure.
This eventually came to mean what English word?
Leisure
-Hard to define, but can be seen as activity, state of mind/existence,
motivation, and/or free time
-There is no single "best" definition of leisure
-Leisure is different for everyone, and across situations
-Neither good nor bad - correct answer ✔Something chosen in relative
freedom because the activity, companions, context, or some combination of
those elements promises personal satisfaction.
Recreation
-Intended to produce good and healthy results
-Accepted as beneficial
-Done for a conscious purpose
,-In opposition to work - correct answer ✔1. Voluntary activity that is opposite
to work and occurs during leisure
2. Provides pleasure or satisfaction
3. Restores us mentally and physically
4. Dependent on work for meaning
5. Organized for the good of individual and society (socially redeeming)
Deviant practices - correct answer ✔Recreation as resistance to the
dominant culture
Play - correct answer ✔-Appears purposeless
-Voluntary (aka freely chosen—a concept of leisure)
-Inherent attraction
-Absorbing (losing track of time and self)
-Improvisational potential
-Continuation desire
Biological interpretation of play - correct answer ✔-Prepares participants for
the realities of life
Neoteny - correct answer ✔Retaining juvenile characteristics into adulthood;
helps maintain mental plasticity and allows us to continue to develop
1. Vertigo/sensory alteration (Ilinx)
2. Games of chance (Alea)
, 3. Mimicry, imitation or make believe (Mimesis)
4. Competition (Agon) - correct answer ✔4 forms of play:
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 and worthwhile
-The state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else
seems to matter; not thinking about anything beyond the now.
-Enjoyment vs. pleasure
-These are "the best moments of people's lives"
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
Hungarian-American Psychology Professor at Claremont University. - correct
answer ✔-Pioneer in positive psychology, introduced the idea of flow
-Noted for his work on happiness, creativity, and also for his notoriously
difficult name
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There is only so much "mental bandwidth" available. - correct answer ✔Our
nervous system is incapable of processing more than about ___ bits of
information per second
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