Key Concepts Flashcards
what did James regard conscious experience as?
Essential feature as it allows people to adapt to a complex environment
What is individual experience?
Unique to each person and cant be repeated
How do they understand a person?
Humanists need to see things from that persons perspective and be empathetic
What did he uniqueness of individual experiences lead to?
Counterculture in 1960’s where eastern religions came popular
What did rogers say about defensive processes?
Such as denial are employed to ward off anxiety resulting from the threat to our self concept and feelings of self worth
What is the theory of flow?
When a person becomes so involved in an activity that nothing else matters and occurs in physical and mental activities
What did stein et al show?
That students who played sport and were in a flow showed more enjoyment than students who were bored
What are the consequences of free wil?
External consequences from the law
Internal consequences like guilt
What is holism the belief of?
That the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
What does holism avoids attempts to do?
Reduce personality into smaller elements and regards it as essential to consider the person and their behaviours
Organismic theory?
Treats person in terms of their mind and body as a whole - both biological and mental processes
