Psychology 2011A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Experiencia Religiosa, Lucid Dream, 40 Minutes

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2011A/B
• Professor: Imants Baruss

Document Summary

Flow: csikszentmihalyi found that one thing that can improve quality of life is to be faced with challenged that are more demanding than everyday living. Peak experiences: maslow asked people to describe the best experience of their lives, accordingly he characterized the changes of cognition and self-identity that occurred during these peak experiences. Always described as good and desirable, never evil or undesirable, sometimes using the word sacred. In other peak experiences the whole world is seen as unity, as a single rich live entity. Absorption can also be disorientation in time and space. Mystical experience: some peak experiences can be mystical experiences. 20% to 74% of the population claiming to have had some sort of mystical experience. About 35% of those sampled affirmed some intense spiritual experience: consciousness survey (baruss & moore) 47% of respondents claimed to have had an experience that could be best described as a transcendent or mystical experience.