Experience
The term experience is an essential part of the common definitions of psychology as the science of human experience and behavior .
He thus supplements the orientation of psychology as behavioral science ( behaviorism ) with the receptive side of the interaction between people and the environment, i.e. how people experience events, situations or generally their life "internally" or psychologically , or rather "from the perspective of their own" - or self-perception ”, the so-called first-person perspective today . When asked whether experience can be understood as a purely empirical fact, one should point out problems of qualia .
In contrast to the large number of theories about human behavior, there is no generally accepted theory about human experience.
The science of psychology distinguishes between two areas of experience, namely the emotions that accompany the experience, and the cognitions as the internal representation of the experience. Cognitions and emotions are related to each other and interact with one another. Both together make up human experience. In many areas of applied psychology such as B. in experiential education or in self-awareness groups , the interaction of emotion and cognition in human experience is discussed.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ For the necessary basic clarification of psychological terminology, see Dirk Hartmann : Philosophical Foundations of Psychology. WBG, Darmstadt 1998, ISBN 3-534-13887-2 .