4. Humanistic Theories Flashcards
Who believed that human beings are basically good but their personalities become distorted by interpersonal experiences, especially in childhood. And what was his approach called?
Carl Rogers person centred approach
The way people conceive of reality and experience themselves and their world.
Phenomenal experience
The capacity to understand another persons experience cognitively and emotionally.
Empathy
A core aspect of being, untainted about the demands of those around them.
True self
A distortion of the true self, a mask we wear and ultimately mistake to be our true psychological face.
False self
Children distort themselves into being what significant others want them to be
Conditions of worth
An organised pattern of thought and perception about oneself.
Self concept
The persons view of what they should be like.
Ideal self
A desire to fulfil the full range of needs that humans experience, from the basic needs for food and drink to the needs to be open to experience and to express ones true self.
Actualising tendency
According to this approach, people have no fixed nature and must essentially create themselves.
Sartre argued that people must find meaning in their lives by making commitments while also recognising that these commitments have no intrinsic meaning.
Existential approaches to personality
The recognition that life has no absolute value or meaning and that we all face death.
Existential dread
A unique focus on the way humans strive to find meaning in life, a dimension the other approaches fail to address.
Contributions of humanistic theories
What are - (1) does not offer a comprehensive theory of personality in the same way that psychodynamic in cognitive social theories do, (2) humanistic psychology has not produced a substantial body of testable hypotheses and research.
Limitations of humanistic theories
