PSY336H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Negentropy, Peak Experience
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All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be pink floyd. How we spend our time, we waste our time by watching tv with excuses like we are watching in order to inform ourselves about what is going on in the world (news) If you track peoples emotions while watching tv there is a spike in positive affect during the first part of when you start watching tv. 1) people have peak experiences doing virtually anything, it is content independent. 2) vast complexity of people"s ability to interpret peak experiences, large frequency dist to when people have peak experience. 3) the inner feeling of it is identical across all different domains. Flow: description of peak experiences and the guide to quality of life. Attention is a limited resource, and we need structure to help focus our attention. Too much diversity/differentiation, you will never get anything done, you will not be able to build inner structure.
