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| Which of the following descriptions most closely resembles what Kretchmar recommends in the text for promoting deep play experiences? |
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| Persistently provide challenges over time so deep play has the opportunity to grow within the person. |
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| Which of the following is NOT a defining characteristic of play: |
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| T/F Kretcmar argues that when designing intervention strategies, we should eliminate altogether the tool of presenting movement as work. Presenting ‘exercise as medicine’ has no practical value to our professions. |
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| How does Kretchmar explain the intellectual demands made by games vs. those made by play? |
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| Games are more intellectually demanding than play. |
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| To say that play is autotelic is to suggest that: |
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| Kretchmar argues that playgrounds are (should be): |
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| Grown, not found; playgrounds acquire meaning over time. |
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| Deep Play experiences includes the following ‘symptoms’ EXCEPT: |
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| Renting equipment, since it’s too expensive to buy |
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| T/F When we move from ‘test’ to ‘contest,’ Kretchmar argues that we ‘double our pleasure’ because we double the uncertainty of the outcome (i.e. Can I complete this test and can I do it better than you?) |
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| The concept of zero-sum in competition most nearly means: |
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| For every winner, there is also a loser |
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| T/F A game (according to the textbook, lecture) is any natural problemthat is engaged in simply for the sake of wishing to overcome that problem |
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| According to Kretchmar, the “Good Life” is composed of: |
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| Both moral and non-moral values |
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| T/F Kretchmar concludes in the last unit that health and fun are not as valuable as knowledge and skill. In other words, prioritizing health or fun would clearly be the wrong approach. |
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| Kretchmar’s concluding position on the question of whether vigorous activity is required in order to live “the good life” is that: |
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| It is possible to live the good life without activity, but it is not easy to do so |
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| Kretchmar argues that ethics and morality are value neutral, but that developing “good” ethics involves two important concepts: ____________ & ______________. |
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| T/F According to the text and class lecture, rationalizing our immoral behavior – while not a positive thing in itself – comes from the desire for human beings to believe that they are good people. |
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| Presenting kinesiology in the role of an auxiliary profession means most nearly which of the following: |
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| Performing a subsidiary role in promoting the good life |
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| When making value choices we must act with ____________ because our values may not be exactly the same set of values that others hold, but we must also be ____________ because we do have a profound sense of right and wrong, and it would be foolish to conclude that “anything goes.” |
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| T/F When explaining “moral calluses”, Kretchmar argues that we must develop extremely thick calluses in order to insulate ourselves from worry or concern for other people who are beyond our ability to help, i.e. the thicker the callus, the easier it is to live with ourselves. |
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| T/F When using Kretchmar’s Kube of Moral Space to carefully reason out difficult moral dilemmas and deciding the proper course of action, the x-axis (Left to Right, A – B) requires us to position ourselves between the importance of moral rules that guide proper behavior and the importance of the unique variables that exist in any moral situation. |
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| “Charity starts at home.” Kretchmar argues that we are more likely to care for people we know and have connections with, and when we work to develop good ethics we should work on building those connections. This is what Kretchmar calls: ___________. |
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