HUMANISTIC APPROACH PSYCH
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- Created on: 25-08-22 13:09
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- the humanistic approach
- developed by maslow and rogers
- importance of personal growth and fulfillment
- less scientific
- free will and choice
- approach looks at individuals as a whole
- approach rejects determinism and focuses on free will
- argues that you are in control of your life, behaviour, and experiences
- importance of personal growth and fulfillment
- hierarchy of needs
- self actualisation
- self esteem
- love and belongingness
- safety and security
- physiological needs
- air, food, water, shelter, sleep
- health, employment, stability
- physiological needs
- friends, family, connections
- safety and security
- confidence, need for individuality
- love and belongingness
- the most advanced and rewarding of human needs.
- to do this people must seek congruence
- perception of yourself, and your ideal self are matched
- self worth based on interactions with others
- people have expectations and conditions (conditions of worth)
- try to live up to peoples positive regard
- person centered therapy
- receive unconditional positive regard from therapists, help stay true to yourself leading to congruence
- person centered therapy
- try to live up to peoples positive regard
- people have expectations and conditions (conditions of worth)
- to do this people must seek congruence
- self esteem
- self actualisation
- EVALUATION
- positive
- break up behaviour and experience into smaller components
- holist not reductionist, everything is acknowledged
- can treat unique experiences
- other approaches try to simplify things to make it generalisable
- holist not reductionist, everything is acknowledged
- bringing the person back into psychology
- other approaches treated humans as objects of investigation
- refreshing and optimistic
- provides positive image of humans as individuals not stats or a measurement
- break up behaviour and experience into smaller components
- negative
- more associated with individualist cultures
- 1st world issues, privileged theory
- unfair to assume everyone is pursuing the path of hierarchy of needs
- 3rd world countries struggle to pass levels 1 and 2
- no time to focus on self actualisation
- limited by cultural bias
- 1st world issues, privileged theory
- difficult to test scientifically
- no empirical evidence, just opinions no facts
- problematic to assess or measure under experimental conditions
- relatively little real world application
- not scientific, unmeasurable results, makes it unreliable
- abstract concepts
- more of a social aspect, doesn't help psych to be seen as scientific
- limited impact within psychology
- fails to produce any evidence for the theory
- more associated with individualist cultures
- positive
- developed by maslow and rogers
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