Exam 3 Flashcards
Chapter 10: What is flow?
engaged state of mind when doing an activity
Chapter 10: Conditions for Flow:
a. Clear Goals
b. Immediate Feedback
c. Balance of Skills and Challenge
Chapter 10: Biggest Flow Producers:
a. Games/Sports – recreational more than competitive
b. Arts
c. Hobbies
Chapter 10: Aspects in subjective experience of flow)
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
Chapter 10: Autotelic Personality
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.”
Chapter 10: Autotelic Family Context [slide 21] Five things
¥ 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
Chapter 10: Four types of games and their complicated names
Agon: Competition - Alea: Chance - Mimicry: Role playing - Ilinx: Vertigo (change or expand consciousness)
