Flow Experiences During Visuomotor Skill Acquisition Reflect Deviation From a Power-Law Learning Curve, but Not Overall Level of Skill

Autor: Benjamin Ultan Cowley, Jussi Palomäki, Tuisku Tammi, Roosa Frantsi, Ville-Pekka Inkilä, Noora Lehtonen, Pasi Pölönen, Juha Vepsäläinen, Otto Lappi
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 10 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01126
Popis: Flow is a state of “optimal experience” that arises when skill and task demands match. Flow has been well studied in psychology using a range of self-report and experimental methods; with most research typically focusing on how Flow is elicited by a particular task. Here, we focus on how the experience of Flow changes during task skill development. We present a longitudinal experimental study of learning, wherein participants (N = 9) play a novel steering-game task designed to elicit Flow by matching skill and demand, and providing clear goals and feedback. Experimental design involves extensive in-depth measurement of behavior, physiology, and Flow self-reports over 2 weeks of 40 game trials in eight sessions. Here we report behavioral results, which are both strikingly similar and strong within each participant. We find that the game induces a near-constant state of elevated Flow. We further find that the variation in Flow across all trials is less affected by overall performance improvement than by deviation of performance from the expected value predicted by a power law model of learning.
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