PSY BEH 170S Chapter 12: Chapter 12 - Experience, Existence, and the Meaning of Life Humanistic and Positive Psychology
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Chapter 12 (13) - experience, existence, and the meaning of life: humanistic and positive psychology. Phenomenology - one"s conscious experience of the world. The only place and time in which you exist is in your consciousness, right here, right now. One"s conscious experience of the world is psychologically more important than the world itself. Phenomenology is all about construals -- your particular experience and view of the world. Introspection - the task of observing one"s own mental processes. Existentialism - the approach to philosophy that focuses on conscious experience (phenomenology), free will, the meaning of life, and other basic questions of existence. The conscious experience of being alive has 3 parts. Umwelt - the sensations you feel by virtue of being a biological organism. Mitwelt - what you think and feel as a social being. Eigenwelt - psychological experience - how you feel and think when you try to understand yourself, your own mind, and your own existence.