The Humanistic Perspective Flashcards
Self Actualization
in humanistic theories, an inborn tendency to strive toward the realization of one’s full potential
•Contrast Freuds belief that there is little demons inside of us
What is George Kelly’s theory?
Personal Construct theory
•Goal of humans is to make sense out of the world and to Find personal meaning to it
Personal Constructs
in George Kelly’s personality theory, the cognitive categories used to sort events and make comparisons among people and events
•The primary basis for individual differences in personality
Self
in Rogers’s theory, an organized, consistent set of perceptions and beliefs about oneself
•Plays a powerful role in guiding our perceptions and directing our behaviour
What did Carl Roger’s believe?
That our behaviour is a response to our immediate conscious experience of self and environment
When the forces that direct behaviours are within us and when they are not distorted or blocked by the environment they direct us towards self-actualization
Central concept: Self
Self Consistency
An absence of conflict among self-perceptions
Congruence
Consistency between self-perceptions and experience
Conditions of Worth
internalized standards of self-worth fostered by conditional positive regard from others
Need for positive self-regard
in Rogers’s personality theory, the psychological need to feel positively about oneself that underlies self-enhancement behaviours
Unconditional Positive Regard
a communicated attitude of total and unconditional acceptance of another person that conveys the person’s intrinsic worth
•Often parent to children
Need for positive regard
an innate need to be positively regarded by others and by oneself
•For acceptance, sympathy and love from others
•Rogers believed it is essential to healthy development
Fully functioning persons
Rogers’s term for self-actualized people who are free from unrealistic conditions of worth and who exhibit congruence, spontaneity, creativity, and a desire to develop still further
Self esteem
How positively or negatively we feel about ourselves
True or False
If a person with low self esteem experiences a great success, it is related to better health
False
Actually worse because it causes doubt of self perception
Self Verification
the tendency to try to verify or validate one’s existing self-concept—that is, to satisfy congruence needs
