PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Peak Experience, Internal Consistency
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+: as one increases, the other one increases. : as one decreases, the other one increases. How to validate it: give survey to everyone in sample. Get a score for everyone: send everyone to 10 hours of therapy with a qualified therapist. Get a score: calculate a correlation b/w the 2 ranging from -1 to +1. Split randomly into 2 sets of 25 questions (set 1 and 2) Correlation of 0. 7 or 0. 8 would make the survey valid. Only people with high self-esteem can have an optimal/peak experience. Aesthetic and cognitive needs: searching for beauty in life. Most of these are in the textbook. Self-esteem: self-worth depends on 1st achieving recognition from others to obtain the self- confidence. You don"t need a high self-esteem to experience the peak/flow experience. Flow experience: exhilaration felt by someone who undertakes complex tasks using complex skills.
