Humanistic Psychology pt.3 Flashcards
What is the difference between positive / humanistic psychology and traditional psychology
Traditional psych tends to ingore uniquely human capacities and the meaning of life, which is what posititve psychology is all about
What is the main idea of the phenomenological approach?
The conscious awareness of being alive
According to positive psychology, what are the two ways to make the most of life?
To be mindful as much as possible, and to experience flow (where you loose track of time and become absored in what your doing)
these are opppsites
What can help people who are suffering from depression and anxiety to accept themselves as they are and break habits of negative thinking that hold them back.
Mindfulness Mediation
Flow does not work for everybody, only people high in _______ of control benefit from activities meant to promote flow.
Locus of control
What element of humansitic psychology says that human susyems are greater than the sum of its parts?
Hollistic
What element of humansitic psychology goes over the whole person from birth to death?
Hsitoric
What element of humansitic psychology focuses on interior, experiential, and existential aspects of personality
Phenomenological
What element of humansitic psychology focuses on people in nature, society, and culture, not just in the lab
Real life
What element of humansitic psychology focuses on joy, fruitful activities, virtuous actions, and artributes?
Positivity
What element of humansitic psychology focuses on choices, decisions, and voluntary actions
Will
What element of humansitic psychology says that a philispophy of live describes what is valuable
Value
What is the guilt form failing to completely fulfill your possibilities?
Existential guilt
Yalom outlines 4 key existential concerns we all have to deal with, what are they?
Death
Freedom
Isolation
Meaninglessness
What are the 6 core virtues?
courage, justice, humanity, temperance, wisdom, and transcendence
