AQA Psychology Unit 1 Humanistic Approach
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- Humanistic
- Assumptions
- Human beings must be viewed as a whole and not be reduced to component parts
- Human beings have free will and ave control over their own decisions
- Each person is unique
- Thier subjective experience must be taken into account
- To be psyhologically healthy, our ideal self and real self must be congruent
- Evaluation
- Weaknesses
- Hard to test concepts of self control
- Unscientific - use of case studies
- Subjective
- Difficult to generalise findings as method used is case studies
- Subjective
- Strengths
- Highlights the importance of personality
- Big impact on treatment of psychological problems
- Highlights importance of non scientific investigation into human behaviour
- Maslow's hierarchy has many practical aplications
- Weaknesses
- Concept of self
- During childhood
- "I" or"me" experiences
- As we get older, become more aware of own identity
- Personality likes and silikes
- As we get older, become more aware of own identity
- "I" or"me" experiences
- Ideal self
- What a person aspires to be like
- Therapy increases level of congruence between ideal and real self
- During childhood
- Self-actualisation
- If one wants to be psychologically healthy
- All deficiency needs must be met first
- If one wants to be psychologically healthy
- Research
- Idiotgraphic and qualitative
- Unstructured interviews
- Analysis of diaries
- Holistic view
- Subjective experiences
- Idiotgraphic and qualitative
- Assumptions
- Client controlled therapy
- Big impact on treatment of psychological problems
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