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1Department of Social Work and Guidance, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Lillehammer, PO Box 400, N-2418, Elverum, Norway. maarten.kae.paulsen@inn.no.
Integrative Psychological & Behavioral Science
|April 27, 2020
Summary
This study explores theories of experience, revealing how dynamic interactions enrich static views. Understanding experience involves attention, perception, reflection, and creation for a holistic perspective.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Science
- Phenomenology
- Learning Theory
Background:
- Theories of experience are crucial for understanding how conceptions of objects, events, and ideas are structured.
- Existing theories often present a static systemic view of experience.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review how experience is understood across phenomenology, pragmatics, and experiential learning theory.
- To propose a dynamic view that enriches static theories of experience.
- To analyze the phenomenon of experience through recursive interactions.
Main Methods:
- Literature review of theories of experience.
- Analysis of experience as a phenomenon, concept, and category.
- Examination of recursive interactions between form and process.
Main Results:
- Existing theories of experience are enriched by incorporating a dynamic perspective.
- Experience is structured through recursive interactions in four layers: attention in sensing, categorization in perceiving, meaning in reflecting, and transformation in creating.
Conclusions:
- A dynamic, layered model of experience provides a more comprehensive understanding.
- Integrating form and process in recursive interactions is key to understanding experiential phenomena.
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