Experience

When interacting with others, individuals have the tendency to associate their reactions, thoughts, and feelings, that occur during a conversation, to other individuals they know or experiences they have had. For example, I may meet a girl in a bar who reminds me of my ex-girlfriend, and thus, I cannot give her my undivided attention because I am too distracted with her similarities to my ex-girlfriend. When this phenomenon occurs in therapy, it is referred to as countertransference. Freud…

neonatal nurses and the lived experiences they encounter during the introduction of developmental care in the unit. This small study focuses on seven neonatal nurses who are interviewed about their experiences during this transitional time. In the attempt to address the needs of a sick baby, the nurse teaches the mother the skills she needs to care for her baby in a developmentally appropriate way. Five themes explore the true essence of the neonatal nurses experience as the phenomenon (Hall,…

observation, or experience. Wisdom is the ability to discern and judge which aspects of that knowledge are true, right, lasting, and applicable to your life. It’s the ability to apply that knowledge to the greater scheme of life. It’s also deeper; knowing the meaning or reason; about knowing why something is, and what it means to your life. The dictionary defines wisdom as “the ability to discern or judge what is true, right, or lasting.” Knowledge is “information gained through experience,…

Bobo’s discussion of audience’s reactions to ‘Daughters of the Dust’ highlighted the significant difference to my own (Dash, 1991). I struggled with this film, it did not resonate and although I thought it was quite beautiful and because of that, mesmerising, I did not understand it. I found the dialect difficult to comprehend and the narrative, unfamiliar. I tried to decipher this text in two ways. Firstly, I attempted to take what I was seeing and place it within a context that I felt I…

I do deal with adversity; it may be a unique kind of adversity, but this particular adversity truly depicts my lifestyle. Every human being proves himself or herself through some sort of competition, whether it is a sport or any particular game. Uniquely, my type of adversity is not the game or the sport. Although I play the sport of tennis, I’m welcomed with an entirely new situation that has differed me in the tennis society. At the crack of dawn, I rise up out of my hotel bedroom, nervous…

Individuals coming from all walks of life and different times of the world experience life in their own way. Most individuals will experience an event or something traumatic in their lives that will mature them through knowledge about the world, other people, and what they would like to achieve for themselves. The novel, The Wars by Timothy Findley, is a story of the many characters and their journey though the war. Findley expresses the physical and emotional aspects of war through these…

offer the chance to study almost anywhere in the world for the same price as tuition. Along with that, Bond University will help me advance professionally and academically as well because of the classes that I will take while I’m there, but also the experience that I will gain from living in a different country. I plan on fulfilling 4 of my psychology minor requirements while I am abroad. This is an amazing opportunity, because psychology, put simply, is the study of people. Being able to study…

could deflate the challenge of CP. Dogmatism says that if a subject S has a perceptual experience with content P, then S has prima facie justification for believing P. Furthermore, S’s belief in P is immediate and does not depend on any further justified propositions. Cognitive penetration (CP) suggests that beliefs, desires, moods, expectations, etc. can influence the content of perceptual processes and/or experiences. Siegel insists that CP threatens dogmatism. She uses a simple example to…

diversity plays a major role in shaping the human experience, as well as in forming identity. Diversity itself is a complex issue that is affected by various variables such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, religion, political ideology, and sexual orientation. These variables also have the capacity to create experiences of power and privilege. Thus, depending on the way in which these differences impact an individual’s life, one may experience oppression, marginalization and alienation. …

It is good to have an end to journey toward, and in the end the experiences within the journey itself are equally as important, as such ventures can induce some form of self-transformation. Journeys, Year 11 students, are amongst the very few things in life that is completely unavoidable. Every single person in this room has embarked on a journey, whether it be a journey to senior schooling, or even a journey to self-discovery; everyone has at least once experienced the impacts journeys may…