Holistic-Dynamic Theory Flashcards
Assumes that the whole person is constantly being motivated by one need or another and that people have the potential to grow toward psychological health; prepotency
Holistic-Dynamic Theory
We need to study psychological healthy people to understand human nature, not psychopathological ones
Maslow’s Approach
Hierarchy of Needs
- Physiological Needs
- Safety Needs
- Love and Belongingness Needs
4, Esteem Needs
If we understood the conscious motivation underlying the behavior; we would recognize that the needs are not reversed. For example, when an individual prioritizes esteem needs before love and belongingness.
Reverse Order of Needs
Three Main Conditions for a person to be able to self-actualize.
- No restraints imposed by others on what you can do
- Little or no distraction from deficiency needs;
- An ability to know yourself very well
Other Needs in Holistic-Dynamic Theories
- Aesthetic Needs
- Cognitive Needs
- Neurotic Needs
Characteristic of needs; they have a striving or motivational character
Conative Needs
Holistic-Dynamic Theory View of Motivation
- Holistic approach to motivation
- Motivation is usually complex
- people are continually motivated by one need or another
- all people everywhere are motivated by the same basic needs; and
- needs can be arranged on a hierarchy
Looked for common elements and identified self-actualizing qualities
Maslow’s Approach
What we call “normal in psychology is really a _______________, so undramatic & so widely spread that we don’t even notice it ordinarily
Psychopathology of the average
Only needs that can be completely satisfied or even overly satisfied
Physiological Needs
Include some aspects of sex and human contact as well as the need to both give
Love and Belongingness
Mutually felt and shared and are not motivated by a deficiency or incompleteness within the lover
B-Love
Has two levels, reputation & self-esteem
Esteem Needs
Deprivation of Self Actualization
Metapathology
Deficiency of love or affection (attachment) based on the lover’s specific deficiency and the loved one’s ability to satisfy that deficit
D-Love
Self-actualizers are capable of what love?
B-Love
Lack of satisfaction of any of the basic needs leads to some kind of pathology
Deprivation of Needs
Is the need to help other people to achieve self-actualization
Transcendence
It implies a condition in which motivation as we know it plays no role. Self-actualizing persons are not motivated to strive for a particular goal. Instead, they are said to be developing from within. Maslow, described the motivation of the people who are not self-actualizers as a condition of D-motivation or Deficiency.
Metamotivation
It involves striving for something specific to make up for something that is lacking within us.
D-motivation
Are not universal, but at least some people in every culture seem to be motivated by the need for beauty and aesthetically pleasing experiences.
Aesthetic Needs
