LEI3001 Midterm FIU Questions with
verified answers graded A+
Play - correct answer ✔✔Spontaneous, voluntary activities that are intrinsically rewarding and
all-absorbing
Research suggests that a lack of play is linked to childhood obesity and adult-onset diabetes
Recreation - correct answer ✔✔A play-like activity that may have structured timeframes and
require involuntary participation
Recreation may be play, but play is not recreation
Leisure - correct answer ✔✔Unobligated time, state of being, various ways to use time
Thought to be the opposite of work
Flow - correct answer ✔✔A state of being that happens when a person is fully immersed in an
activity that leaves the person feeling energized, focused, and successful
Tends to result in optimal life experiences
For a person to experience flow, the activity must do all of the following - correct answer
✔✔Require skill
Merge action and awareness
Provide clear goals and feedback
Require concentration and absorption of attention
Provide an individual with personal control over the act
Create a loss of self-consciousness
Cause a person to lose all track of time
, Provide intrinsic rewards
Values and Benefits of Recreation and Leisure - correct answer ✔✔The recreation and leisure
field provides social, environmental, and economic benefits within each of these areas:
Improved condition
Prevention of a worse condition
Realization of a psychological experience
Early Park Development - correct answer ✔✔Boston Common (1643): common natural area in
the center of the city
Central Park (1858): designed by F.L. Olmsted
Early vision of parks
Contemplative leisure
Shut out the city during the industrial age
Encourage kinder social interaction and self-control
Walkways, lakes, pathways for carriages, and green space
US Government Involvement - correct answer ✔✔Concern over the availability of natural
resources for future generations
Led to the development of the conservation movement
Forest Service in 1906
National Park Service in 1916
Federal government became an important provider of parks and recreation after the crash of
the stock market
Works Progress Administration created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which created
800 state parks
Over 28,000 miles of trails
verified answers graded A+
Play - correct answer ✔✔Spontaneous, voluntary activities that are intrinsically rewarding and
all-absorbing
Research suggests that a lack of play is linked to childhood obesity and adult-onset diabetes
Recreation - correct answer ✔✔A play-like activity that may have structured timeframes and
require involuntary participation
Recreation may be play, but play is not recreation
Leisure - correct answer ✔✔Unobligated time, state of being, various ways to use time
Thought to be the opposite of work
Flow - correct answer ✔✔A state of being that happens when a person is fully immersed in an
activity that leaves the person feeling energized, focused, and successful
Tends to result in optimal life experiences
For a person to experience flow, the activity must do all of the following - correct answer
✔✔Require skill
Merge action and awareness
Provide clear goals and feedback
Require concentration and absorption of attention
Provide an individual with personal control over the act
Create a loss of self-consciousness
Cause a person to lose all track of time
, Provide intrinsic rewards
Values and Benefits of Recreation and Leisure - correct answer ✔✔The recreation and leisure
field provides social, environmental, and economic benefits within each of these areas:
Improved condition
Prevention of a worse condition
Realization of a psychological experience
Early Park Development - correct answer ✔✔Boston Common (1643): common natural area in
the center of the city
Central Park (1858): designed by F.L. Olmsted
Early vision of parks
Contemplative leisure
Shut out the city during the industrial age
Encourage kinder social interaction and self-control
Walkways, lakes, pathways for carriages, and green space
US Government Involvement - correct answer ✔✔Concern over the availability of natural
resources for future generations
Led to the development of the conservation movement
Forest Service in 1906
National Park Service in 1916
Federal government became an important provider of parks and recreation after the crash of
the stock market
Works Progress Administration created the Civilian Conservation Corps, which created
800 state parks
Over 28,000 miles of trails
