Humanistic Approach Flashcards
What is the humanistic approach?
Understanding behaviour that emphasises the importance of subjective experience and each persons capacity for self-determination.
What is free will?
the notion that humans can make choices and are not determined by biological or external forces.
What did Rodger’s and Marslow reject and why?
Scientific models that attempt to understand behaviour as humans are all unique and so psychology should concern itself with the study of subjective experience and self-determination rather than general laws.
What is self-actualisation?
The desire to grow psychologically and fulfill one’s full potential, becoming what you are capable of as has an innate tendency to achieve this.
Who invented the hierarchy of needs?
Abraham Maslow
What is the hierarchy of needs?
5 leveller hierarchical sequence in which must be satisfied before higher psychological needs can be achieved.
How can an individual achieve self-actualisation?
All 4 lower levels of the hierarchy of needs must be met.
What are the 5 hierarchical needs?
Physiological needs
Safety
Love
Self-esteem
Self-actualisation
Define ‘self’
Ideas and values that characterise ‘I’ and ‘me’ and includes perception and valuing of ‘what I am’.
How can congruence be achieved?
Client therapy
How can personal growth be achieved?
Needs to be confidence between the self and the idea self.
What is congruence?
When the self-concept and the ideal self broadly match.
What can incongruence lead to?
Negative self esteem and inability to reach self actualisation.
What is conditions of worth?
When a parent places limits on their love of their child, storing up psychological problems for the child in the future.
What is client centred therapy’s
Non-directive therapy as the client uses an encourage the discovery of their own solutions within a therapeutic atmosphere.
