Humanistic Approach

Question 1

whcih approach focuses on free will instead of determinsim?

Answer 1

Humanistic

Question 2

determinism meaning?

Answer 2

predetermined by outside factors

Question 3

2 types of determinism

Answer 3

• soft and hard determinism

Question 4

define hard determinism

Answer 4

claims that determinism is incompatiable with freedom

Question 5

define soft determinism

Answer 5

• some what determined by other factors, nonetheless we’re still free

Question 6

standard deviation?

Answer 6

• average distance data is from the mean

Question 7

what is Opportunity sampling?

Answer 7

• it’s a sampling technique used to select participants from a target group to take part in a research study.
• Consists of the researcher selecting anyone who is available and willing to take part in the study.

Question 8

What does the humanistic approach focus on?

Answer 8

• free will / rejects determinism
• positive outlook on human behaviour
• studies uniqeness of the individual - a ‘person centred approach’

(studies uniqueness of an individual rather than explaining/treating all humans using the same law)

Question 9

what does The Humanistic Approach look at (theory)

the person and their main focus

Answer 9

• Maslow’s Heirachy of Needs

Question 11

name the levels of Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs:

5

Answer 11

• Self actulisation
• Esteem
• Love and Belonging
• Safety needs
• Physiological Needs

Question 12

Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs

what comes under self actualisation?

Answer 12

• desire to become more than one can be
• to reach your full potential/ to be the best you can be

Question 13

what is one problem with Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs

Answer 13

• It has a very western/Devlepoed/1st world bias
• alot of people in developing countries will struggle for basic needs, e.g food, water, clothes, safety, and shelter

Question 14

Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs

what comes under Esteem?

Answer 14

• respect
• self respect
• status
• recognition
• strength
• freedom

Question 15

Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs

What comes under Love and Belonging

Answer 15

• friendship
• intamacy
• family
• sense of connection

Question 16

Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs

What comes under Safety needs

Answer 16

• personal security
• employment
• health
• property

Question 17

Maslow’s Hierachy of Needs

What comes under Physiological needs?

Answer 17

• air
• water
• food
• clothing
• shelter
• sleep
• reproduction

Question 18

what is Acturial Psychology?

Answer 18

• Any predictions of behaviour based on purely statistical information and not subjective judgement

Question 19

what do humanistic psychologists say?

Answer 19

“we have an innate desire to reach self-actualisation”

Question 20

what does congruence mean?

Answer 20

• when our ideal self and our actual self are the same
• If there’s too big of a gap, self-actualisation won’t be possible, due to negative feeling of self-worth (esteem level)

Question 21

For personal growth (and self-actualisation) to be achieved, we must have congruence

Question 22

What is conditions of worth?
give an example of what it would sound like?
and who puts conditions of worth on us?

Answer 22

• having value placed on our worth
• “i will love you if you get 3 A’s for your A-levels”
• parents

Question 23

Where does incongruence stem from and why?

Answer 23

childhood - lack of unconditional love

Question 24

What is a treatment for ingongruence?
and what does this provide the clients with?

Answer 24

-client- centered therapy
(counselling)
- genuiness
- empathy
- unconditional posititve regard (unconditional love)
- (help increase persons feeling of self-worth)

Question 25

random

what did peterson and peterson do?

Answer 25

• duration of STM
• consonant triagram
• with delayed recall amd distracter task

Question 26

random

what is an extreneous variable?

Answer 26

• variables other than the IV, try control it

Question 27

random

what are confounding variables?

Answer 27

• Extreneous variables not controlled for