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Chapter 10: What is flow?

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engaged state of mind when doing an activity

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Chapter 10: Conditions for Flow:

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a. Clear Goals
b. Immediate Feedback
c. Balance of Skills and Challenge

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Chapter 10: Biggest Flow Producers:

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a. Games/Sports – recreational more than competitive
b. Arts
c. Hobbies

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Chapter 10: Aspects in subjective experience of flow)

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a. intense and focused concentration
b. merging of action & awareness
c. loss of self-consciousness
d. sense of control
e. distortion of time
f. process is rewarding – done because the process is fun not because of an end goal

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Chapter 10: Autotelic Personality

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A cluster of traits exhibited by a person who enjoys life and who “generally does things for [his or her] own sake, rather than in order to achieve some later external goal” (Csikszentmihalyi, 1997, p. 117). From the Greek words autos, meaning “self,” and telos, meaning “end.”

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Chapter 10: Autotelic Family Context [slide 21] Five things

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¥ Clarity of goals: know parental expectations
¥ Centering: perception parents care about their present
¥ Choice: variety of possibilities
¥ Commitment: trust relationship will continue
¥ Challenge: provide increasingly complex opportunities

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Chapter 10: Four types of games and their complicated names

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Agon: Competition - Alea: Chance - Mimicry: Role playing - Ilinx: Vertigo (change or expand consciousness)

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