Exploring inner experience the descriptive experience sampling method
Written for the psychologist, philosopher, and layperson interested in consciousness, Exploring Inner Experience provides a comprehensive introduction to the Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) method for obtaining accurate reports of inner experience. DES uses a beeper to cue participants to pay...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub
c2006.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Advances in consciousness research ;
v. 64. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798053206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Exploring Inner Experience
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Preface
- An example
- A crisis for psychological science
- A note to non-professionals
- About this book
- One more appeal
- Inner experience
- Descriptive experience sampling
- The ancient history of inner experience
- The recent history of inner experience
- An example
- Another example
- Characterizing inner experience
- The aim of this book
- Amy's inner experience
- Sampling day 1
- Sampling day 2
- Sampling day 3
- Sampling day 4
- Sampling day 5
- Sampling day 6
- Sampling day 7
- Sampling day 8
- Questions and answers
- A look ahead
- Telling what we know
- ``Nisbett and Wilson said it couldn't be done''
- ``Introspectionists can't agree''
- ``Skinner said that inner experience is impossible to examine''
- Differential reinforcement
- ``Accessing inner experience is easy - just ask''
- Conclusion
- Note
- Psychological science's prescription for accurate reports about inner experience
- The return to introspection
- The lessons to be learned from the eyewitness identification dilemma
- Importance of the task and need for improvement
- Fifteen guidelines for the exploration of inner experience
- Can introspection be useful?
- To beep or not to beep*
- The beeper as navigational aid
- Discussion
- Note
- The Descriptive Experience Sampling procedure
- Co-investigators
- Sampling mechanics
- The expositional interview
- Extracting the salient characteristics
- Between-group characteristics
- Questions and answers
- Conclusion
- Transcript of a DES expositional interview
- The interview
- The result
- The question of validity
- How to do DES
- How to define ``This very moment''
- At the moment of the beep
- Questions and answers
- A sampling journal
- Being a sampling subject myself.
- Observing a sampling interview (of Jack)
- Conducting sampling interviews (of Kelly)
- Conclusion
- Bracketing presuppositions
- Questions and answers
- Reliability and validity of DES
- Interobserver reliability of DES1
- Results and discussion
- Discussion
- Notes
- DES compared to other systems
- DES and the qualitative research interview
- Twelve aspects of the mode of understanding in the qualitative research interview
- DES and phenomenological psychology
- Summary
- Everyday inner experience
- Inner speech
- Inner seeing (aka images)
- Unsymbolized thinking
- Feelings
- Sensory awareness
- Multiple awareness
- No inner experience
- Comments
- Ontological postscript
- Implications of inner experience
- Form vs. content
- Inner experience is important
- Inner experience form impacts people
- Inner speech
- Inner seeing (aka images)
- Unsymbolized thinking
- Feelings
- Sensory awareness
- Clarity
- Communication and relationships
- Postscript
- Idiographic science
- Idiographic science is rare
- Why is idiographic science rare?
- Idiographic research is difficult but possible
- Truth
- Clinical impression is not necessarily truth
- Validity is not truth
- Questions and answers
- Epilogue
- References
- Index
- Advances in Consciousness Research.
