Humanistic Psychology
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- Created on: 04-04-19 14:05
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- Humanistic Psychology
- Free will
- Claims that human beings are essentially self-determining and have free will
- Does not mean people aren't affected by internal or external influences but we are active agents who have the ability to determine our own development
- Rogers and Maslow reject scientific models that attempt to establish general principles of human behavior
- We are all unique and should be focused n the subjective experience rather than general laws.
- Person centered approach
- Self-actuaisation
- Innate tendency to achieve everyones full potential
- Self-actualisation represents Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- All four lower levels of the hierarchy need to be met between fo the person can work towards self-actualization and fulfill their potential.
- Humanistic psychologists regard personal as an essential part of being human
- Personal growth is concerned with developing and changing as a person to become fulfilled, satisfied and goal orientated
- Not everyone achieves self-actualization
- The self, congruence and conditions of worth
- Rogers argued that for personal growth to be achieved the concept of themselves and their ideal self should be equivalent
- If a big gap exists between the two then the person will experience a state of incongruence and self-actualization won't be possible.
- To reduce the gap, Rodgers developed vlient-centred therapy to help people cope with the problems of everyday living
- Rogers claimed that many of the issues adults experience are rooted from childhood and can be explained by unconditional positive regard from parents
- If parents set conditions of worth then they are storing up psychological problems for that child in the future
- Rogers claimed that many of the issues adults experience are rooted from childhood and can be explained by unconditional positive regard from parents
- Evaluation
- Limited application
- Humanistic psychology has little relatively real-world application
- Rogerian therapy has revolutionised counseling techniques and Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been used to explain motivation
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- Rogerian therapy has revolutionised counseling techniques and Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been used to explain motivation
- Humanistic psychology has little relatively real-world application
- Not reductionist
- Humanistic reject any attempt to break up behavior and experience into smaller components.
- Behaviorists explain human learning in terms of simple stimulus-response connections; Freud described the whole of personality as a conflict and biological psychologists reduce behavior to its basic processes
- Humanistic psychologists use holism - idea that subjective experience can only be understood considering the whole person
- This approach may have more validity by considering meaningful human behavior within real-life context
- Humanistic psychologists use holism - idea that subjective experience can only be understood considering the whole person
- Behaviorists explain human learning in terms of simple stimulus-response connections; Freud described the whole of personality as a conflict and biological psychologists reduce behavior to its basic processes
- Humanistic reject any attempt to break up behavior and experience into smaller components.
- Positive approach
- Human psychologists have been praised for bringing the person back into psychology as it promotes a positive image of the human condition
- Freud saw human beings as slaves to their past and claimed all of us existed somewhere between 'common unhappiness and absolute despair'
- Humanistic psychology offers a refreshing and optimistic alternative as it sees all people as basically good
- Freud saw human beings as slaves to their past and claimed all of us existed somewhere between 'common unhappiness and absolute despair'
- Human psychologists have been praised for bringing the person back into psychology as it promotes a positive image of the human condition
- Limited application
- Free will
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