Phenomenology

• Phenomenology is the description of an individual's immediate experience. Rather than looking at behaviors and events that are external to us, we begin with personal experience as source of data. When using this approach, we simply attend to our own experience.
• Accuracy and objectivity in phenomenology are compromised because the process being observed may be altered by the observer's attention to it.
• Replication in phenomenology is difficult because descriptions of private experiences are not observable in public.
• Generalization in phenomenology is uncertain because it cannot be known if others would have the same experiences without replication.
• Phenomenology cannot be used to understand the causes of behavior because it is a non-experimental design that describes, but does not explain, behavior.
• Phenomenology cannot be used to understand the causes of behavior.
• Phenomenology cannot be used to understand the causes of behavior.

  Providing causal relationships