Phenomenology

Abraham Maslow, an influential humanistic psychologist, was born on April 1st, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. Maslow is known as the “father of American humanism” for broadening psychology with theories on self-actualization and human potential. He completely supported a humanistic approach that highlights individual development and provides a specific understanding on behavior and mental processes. Throughout his career, Maslow stressed that experience is the primary tool in learning about the…

Proposal for Scottish about rejuvenation programme for Bowling Basin I would like to propose a site-specific performance piece as part of the Bowling Basin rejuvenation programme. The performance would aim to attract the local community, passers by as well as anyone interested in the history of the harbour. The Bowling Harbour was first opened in 1851. It was a pioneer within the UK shipbuilding industry and provided the country with a large quantity of quality ships, before and during the war…

On the surface, memory appears to be passive experience; it is strange and often intangible. However, dive deeper it reveals that memory can leave strong impressions on individuals. Memories are moments a person lived and remembers when recounted. Memories can come in many forms. According to Jan Assmann, communicative memory is a shared and transferable within a social group defined by common memories of personal interaction. The communicative memory comprises memories related to the recent…

Concepts are not completely theoretically and operationally defined. The lack of clear propositions and operational definitions does not allow for measurement or testing of hypotheses. However, his description of phenomena is well suited for use in phenomenology or ethnology qualitative or mixed methods research. Palmer’s theory may be applied to interdisciplinary education, demonstrating…

Realism is another epistemology position which relates to scientific enquiry. The realism is that what the senses show us as reality is the truth: the objects have an existence independent of the human mind. Realism begins from the position that the picture that science paints of the world is a true and accurate one (Chia and Holt 2006)There are two type of realism one is direct realism another is critical realism. Direct realism says that what you see is what you get: what we experience through…

members of a subordinate group (Kendall, 2015). Michael L. Birzer and Jackquice Smith-Mahdi studied the constant struggle that African American experience in their everyday lives, from shopping to the workplace in the article, “Does Race Matter? The Phenomenology of Discrimination Experienced among African Americans. White Americans do not experience the same oppression that African Americans have been experiencing for hundreds of years in American culture. Negative stereotypes about African…

Explain the basic precepts of Gestalt psychology. How is Gestalt psychology different from behaviorism? Also, define phenomenology and provide an example of how researchers might attempt to assess it. Gestalt psychology is a school of thought that believes all objects and scenes can be observed in their simplest forms. The members of this school believed that we experience the world in meaningful wholes. We do not see isolated stimuli; rather we experience meaningful configurations, or Gestalten…

The Purpose of the Study The purpose of this study is to explore how an intern perceives appreciation, in terms of relevant rewards, etc., in return for their contribution to the social enterprise’s overarching mission as workers, especially those that donate their labor. In addition, how that perception affects their level of commitment and subsequently their performance. The interns in question should be between the ages of 18 and 25. Moreover, the interns should be considered members of the…

venous access is needed to improve quality of care and increase patients’ security and contentedness in central venous access care in the future (2015, p.124). In regards to scientific rigor, this study’s report is valid since it is a qualitative phenomenology research, and its study of lived experience is contextual. Thus, no generalizations can be made (Fain, 2013, p. 248). Fain (2013) added, “It is the nature of the research rather than a limitation of the method (p.248).” Furthermore, the…

She uses several qualitative sources to prove her point. Vetter uses Grounded Theory, Ethnography, Case Study, and Phenomenology to conduct her research. (Mas, 2011) Her sources included: taped discussions of monthly meetings, taped group interviews, observations of field notes, which were all collected during monthly TTR meetings (Vetter, 2012). She chose this data…