Humanistic Essay Flashcards
Introduction
Positive approach
Conscious experience rather than behaviour
Focussed on topics meaningful to human beings striving towards personal growth and fulfilment
Not deterministic focuses on free will
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Higheracy of needs
1) physiological
2) safety
3) belonging
4) esteem
5) self actualisation
Ones potential or the drive to reach it there is no definition for self actualisation
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Self congruence when ones ideal self and how they perceive themselves to be are similar a state of congruence exists
Better congruence is better self worth
Humanist therapists are more like guides and facilitators providing empathy and positive regard
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Links to economic development
E: Haggerty 1999 relationship between economic growth and measures of Maslow levels in 88 countries over a 34 year period
E: Maslow theory has greater applications than purely individual basis’s
L: ecological validity
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Research support for conditions of worth
E: Harter et al teenagers who feel they need to fulfill certain conditions in order to gain parents approval frequently end up not liking themselves
E: consistent with Rodgers predictions adolescents who created false self were more likely to develop depression and lose touch with true self
L: proves that Rodgers theory’s are able to be generalised to most of the population
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Humanistic methods do not establish causality
E: Rodgers an advocate for non-experimental research methods as they do not meet up with the methods of therapy and would be ethically wrong
E: without EM and evidence to evaluation of theory or therapy is difficult
L: no replicable reasults so no way to test validity of theory’s
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Unrealistic
E: idea of personality development is directed by an innate need + potential for growth seems like an over simplification
E: focousing on personal self development rather than situational forces is not realistic in modern society
L: ignoring environmental factors takes away from ecological validity
