Sports and Spectacle Key terms

Make-belief

Performances that intentionally blue or sabotage the boundary between the world of the performance and everyday reality

make-believe

performances that maintain a clearly marked boundary between the world of the performance and everyday reality

reflexive

referring back to oneself or itself

restored behavior

physical, verbal, or virtual actions that are not-for-the-first-time; that are prepared or rehearsed. A person may not be aware that she is performing a strip of restored behavior. Also referred to as twice-behavior

uncertainty principle

a tenet of quantum mechanics proposed by Werner Heisenberg in 1927 which states that the measurement of a particle’s position produces uncertainty in the measurement of the particles movement, or vice versa. While each quantity may be measured accurately on its own, both cannot be totally accurately measured at the same time. The uncertainty principle is closely related to teh Heisenberg effect which asserts that the measurement of an event changes the event.