Learning items
Flow
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ConceptAllocation of attention
Attention selects which information and activity receive limited mental processing.
ConceptChallenge–skill balance
The flow framework relates engagement to the fit between perceived challenge and available skill.
ConceptExperience and external circumstances
The quality of an experience concerns subjective involvement as well as external conditions.
ConceptOptimal experience in the flow framework
In Csikszentmihalyi’s framework, an optimal experience involves rewarding absorption in an activity.
VocabularyAutotelic experience
An autotelic experience is rewarding for the activity itself rather than only for an external payoff.
VocabularyPsychic entropy
In discussions of flow, psychic entropy names disorder in experience when information conflicts with goals.
