PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lightning, Wicket-Keeper, Psychological Trauma

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1 Jun 2014
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2 characteristics of awe experiences: vastness, significantly (by many standard deviations) away from the normal frame of reference of your everyday experiences, physical, intellectual, time, number size, may be implied by a stimulus, the stimulus dramatic expands the person"s frame of reference in some domain, ex. Ex. getting fired from job vs. the earth is a dot: facts come along that don"t make sense w your normal frame of reference; over time they build up & you can"t ignore them anymore (cid:224) break apart your frame / meaning system & complexify it make your framework larger to include the new reality, opposite of assimilation, piaget dynamic learning theory, accommodation, stare at an object straight in front of you & look at everything at the same time (cid:224) habituate to non moving aspects of envt (cid:224) non moving aspects fade (cid:224) notice all movement, lies outside of our normal frame of reference (cid:224) wakes you up, enlivens you.

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