NCTRC EXAM STUDY GUIDE questions with correct answers

Leisure efficacy - Ans To meet your own leisure needs, benefits from good circumstances. You need a repertoire of skills to be self-capable. Meet own needs/goals. Attribution Model - Ans The causal analysis of behavior. The process by which a person attributes or makes causal inferences. "To what I attribute my successes and failures". Learned Helplessness - Ans A perceived lack of control over events. -no matter how much energy is expended, the situation is futile & you are helpless to change things.-people learn to be helpless; people become dependent. -behaviors & outcomes are out of one's control. Perceived Freedom - Ans When a person does not feel forced or constrained to participate & does not feel inhibited or limited by the environment. (LDB) The freedom to choose your activity; feel competent; "I can do this" Intrinsic Motivation - Ans To do something for yourself. Internal desires to do something as a sense of satisfaction. Locus of control -internal - Ans You have the control/can change/good self esteem. Locus of control - external - Ans Low self esteem, helpless; "he made me do it". Psycho- Analytic Theory - Ans Engaging in play to reduce anxiety. ie: play therapy-abused child uses doll to master situation.