Week 7- Joyfulness & Flow Flashcards
Who is the main researcher that studied flow?
Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
What is active leisure?
Activities include skill based hobbies, require skills and can be challenging, just like work
What are the benefits of flow?
Greater intrinsic motivation,learning and skill development, better emotional regulation, increased engagement, more creativity
What is flow?
Midpoint between boredom and apathy, state where skills are just adequate to challenge, your optimal performance
Where is flow located in the graph showing the relationship between skills and challenges?
High skills with high challenges
What conditions are needed for flow to happen?
- clear and attainable goals
- skills met the challenge
- constraints involved in activity (rules/ deadline)
- timely feedback
- personal control over situation & outcome
What are the results of being in flow.
- distorted sense of time
- lack of awareness of physical needs
- diminished self consciousness
- intense concentration
What happens to our brains when we have flow?
Transient hypofrontality- frontal cortex shuts down, using less of brain, lower anxiety and sense of self
What does Diane Allen suggest in regards to flow?
ask:
-what am i doing on the inside and outside?
-what’s meaningful?
-where and when am I in flow state the most?
What concept was coined by Bonnie St. John? What tool does she suggest to help build resiliene?
Micro-resilience; joy kits- first aid for attitude
what are the two types of happiness?
hedonic & eudaimonic
what is hedonic happiness?
pleasure we experience with momentary joys- fleeting and don’t have profound impact over time
what is eudaimonic happiness?
fulfillment from pursuing our deeply rooted goals; based on values and give sense of purpose and meaning
what did research data by Gilbert on synthesizing happiness demonstrate?
we can feel happy about circumstances through the stories we tell ourselves about our experience when things don’t go well- bc of psych. immune system enables us
what are the 3 theories of humor?
- Relief humor
- Superiority humor
- incongruity humor
