humanistic psychology
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- Created on: 12-09-19 20:11
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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
- We are all
unique and
should be
focused n the
subjective
experience
rather than
general laws.
- Person centered approach
- Maslow reject scientific models that attempt to establish general principles of human behavior
- Both rogers and maslow regarded personal growth and fulfilment in life as a basic human motive
- Meaning that that people seek to grow psychologically and continuously enhance themselves
- Maslow's theory
- believed that people posses a set of motivation systems that are unrelated to stimulus-response rewards or unconscious desires
- 5 motivational needs: 1. Biological and psychological 2. safety 3. love and belongingness 4. esteem 5. self actualisation
- found that ordinary people may undergo genuine peaks in the seemingly most commonplace events and surroundings
- maslow eventually felt sure that the more emotionally healthy we are, the greater the likelihood of a peak-experience
- also the more frequent such episodes become in the course of day to day living
- self actualisation
- behaviours leading to SA
- Experiencing life like a child
- trying new things instead of sticking to safe paths
- listening to your own feelings
- avoiding pretense and being honest
- being prepared to be unpopular
- taking responsibility
- Self actualisation is a matter of degree and there are no perfect human beings
- He didnt think it was necessary to display all 15 characteristics to become SA'd
- Maslow did not equate SA with perfection it is merely achieving one's potential
- behaviours leading to SA
- Focus on the self
- rogers claimed that people have two basic needs 1. positive regard from others 2. feeling of self worth
- he believed people could only fulfil their potential if they had a positive view on themselves
- a positive self regard can only happen if you have an unconditional positive regard for others
- people dont see the +ve regard for others as unconditional
- They see it as only being valued if they meet conditions
- creating incongruity between the real self and the ideal self
- Congruence
- rogers rejected the deterministic nature of both psychoanalysis and behaviourism and maintained that we behave as we do because of the way we perceive the situation
- when there is similarity between a persons ideal self and how they perceive themselves to be in real life
- conditions of worth
- when people experience conditional positive regard they develop conditions of worth
- these are the conditions that they perceive other put upon them
- so rogers assumed that people can only "grow" if surrounded by genuineness, acceptance and empathy
- Free will
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