the humanistic approach

Question 1

what is free will

Answer 1

humans can make their own choices and we arent determined by biological or external factors

Question 2

what is maslows heirarchy of needs

Answer 2

(in order bottom to top like pryramid)
- self actualisation
- esteem
- love and belonging
- saftey
- physiological

Question 3

explain what happens with the hierarchy of needs

Answer 3

each must be completed before we can focus on next level
and once all 4 completed you reach self actualisation
only 1% reach this

Question 4

what does rogers theory refer to

Answer 4

self concept and how we perceive ourselves as people

Question 5

what are the 3 elements before congruence

Answer 5

self worth
self image
ideal self

Question 6

what does self worth mean

Answer 6

what we think and feel about ourselves, develops in early childhood

Question 7

what is self image

Answer 7

how we see ourselves

Question 8

what is ideal self

Answer 8

the person you would like to be. our goals and ambitions in life and its forever changing

Question 9

what is congruence

Answer 9

when the perceived self and ideal self are similar

Question 10

what is incongruence

Answer 10

when there is a big gap between the perceived and ideal self

Question 11

what is unconditional postitive regard

Answer 11

humans have a basic need to feel nurtured and valued by significant people in their lives

Question 12

what happens when positive regard is and isnt given

Answer 12

positive is given with consequences then people will develop a healthy sense of self worth, if it isnt given then they will feel low self worth

Question 13

what are the conditions of worth

Answer 13

expectations or standards that others put upon us we feel we are only worthy or valuable if we meet these conditions

Question 14

AO3 strength

Answer 14

Strength
- allows rogers to develops client centred therapy
- reduved gao between sled comcept and ideal self
- provides clients write the unconditional positive regard that they failed to recover as a child
- helps clients to overcome these conditions of worth
- therefore can strive to congruence and being a fully functioning person

Question 15

AO3 free will vs determinism

Answer 15

free will vs determinism
- on free will side
- focuses on that we make our own choices and are inflict and responsible by our own actions
- not our biological makeup
- allows us to believe that we make our own decisions
- eg criminals are responsible but can come back
- Disagrees with determinist side
isn’t caused by internal or external factors as event though the approach accepts these factors to influence us, we are free to make our own choice

Question 16

AO3 weakness

Answer 16

weakness
- suffers from cultural bias
- based on western researchers and western society
- has been wrongly related to other cultures
- eg in Maslow hierarchy its hows that non western sculpture focus more on family rather than education
- more related to individual cultures that collective
- They don’t want to become more self actualised
- this is a limitation as it can’t be generalised to all cultures and reduces validly of the approach.