Biological Measures of Human Experience across the Lifespan
Making Visible the Invisible
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Beschreibung
The proposed volume explores methods used by social scientists and human biologists to understand fundamental aspects of human experience. It is organized by stages of the human lifespan: beginnings, adulthood, and aging. Explored are particular kinds of experiences - including pain, stress, activity levels, sleep quality, memory, and menopausal hot flashes - that have traditionally relied upon self-reports, but are subject to inter-individual differences in self-awareness or culture-based expectations. The volume also examines other ways in which normally “invisible” phenomena can be made visible, such as the caloric content of foods, blood pressure, fecundity, growth, nutritional status, genotypes, and bone health. All of the chapters in this book address the means by which social scientists and human biologists measure subjective and objective experience.
This volume explores methods used by social scientists and human biologists to understand fundamental aspects of human experience. It is organized by stages of the human lifespan: beginnings, adulthood, and aging. Explored are particular kinds of experiences - including pain, stress, activity levels, sleep quality, memory, and menopausal hot flashes - that have traditionally relied upon self-reports, but are subject to inter-individual differences in self-awareness or culture-based expectations. The volume also examines other ways in which normally “invisible” phenomena can be made visible, such as the caloric content of foods, blood pressure, fecundity, growth, nutritional status, genotypes, and bone health. All of the chapters in this book address the means by which social scientists and human biologists measure subjective and objective experience.
Examines how social scientists and human biologists measure a wide range of phenomena across the lifespan Discusses various phenomena experienced throughout the human lifespan? Takes a broad approach to the discussion of measuring human experience Discusses the variability in the relationship between self-reports and biological markers? Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Autor*in
Lynnette Leidy Sievert
Themen in »Biological Measures of Human Experience across the Lifespan«
Biological variations of growth spurts and behavior Fundamental aspects of human experience Invisible cognitive phenomena Parental sleep fragmentation and deprivation Physiological activity of gonads Role of biological processes in cognitive activity