STHM 1113 Lecture 1: 9.16.15

• School: Temple University
• Department: Tourism & Hospitality Management
• Course: STHM 1113
• Professor: Ben Altschuler

Document Summary

Deals with getting rid of or restoring energy. A way to practice for life (practice jobs) Something to look forward to releasing energy. Preparation theory: allows church to practice for advait life, playing of roles for example is actual practice leads to stronger teamwork and role acceptance contemporary developmental theories. Stimulus arousal theory: constantly seeing at stimulus, develop knowledge and need for things such as experimental. Competence effective theory: play motivated by need to test areas in environment, achieved through experimentation and information building repetition leads to good outcome. In the zone or more technical term ; flow: cziksentihaly. Players skill matched to the challenge if skill or challenged exceeds on another; task either becomes boring or frsutataring. Catharsis theory: play helps purge emotions, develops from aristotle, socially acceptable way to channel rage. Self expression theory: human are dynamic, need to express their personalities. All of life and is marked by freedom and never imposed in anyways.