PSYC 471 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cotton Candy, Parsing, Orienting Response
9 Mar 2020
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They do it again because they want to relive it. Flow = a sense of effortless action felt in moments that stand out as the best in our lives: components, clarity of goals, you find this often in games and leisure. You know what your end goal is, and you also know your moment to moment goals. If you play tennis, you instantly know if you"ve made a good serve or if it was out: challenges and skills are matched. If the task is too easy, we get bored. If it"s too difficult, we get overwhelmed and it"s hard to stay focused. If i play tennis against someone who is a little better than me, it"s a lot of fun because i have good challenge. But if i play against a pro, it"s just going to be too much: nova scotia surfers excited that a hurricane is coming because major waves, absorbed in the task, flow activities absorb us completely.
