UNIT V. HUMANISTIC APPROACH Flashcards
Roger’s birth date
January 8, 1902
Roger’s died in La Jolla, California at the age of 87
February 4, 1987
a person perceives external objects and experiences, and associates meanings with him. The total system of perceptions and meanings make up the individual’s phenomenal field. Those parts of the phenomenal field seen by the person as self, me or I, make up self.
The self and the ideal self
represents an organized and consistent pattern of perceptions. Aptly referred to as a “self-theory”.
Self or self-concept
a self-concept that a person would most likely to possess. It includes the perceptions and meanings that potentially are relevant to the self and that are valued highly by the person.
Ideal self
a subsystem that operates to actualize the emerging portion of the organism.
Actualizing tendency
a subset of the actualization tendency. The tendency to actualize the self as perceived in awareness
Self-actualization
Levels of awareness:
- Ignored or denied
- Accurately symbolized and freely admitted to the self-structure
- Distorted frorm
a state of consistency and harmony. Persons will try to bring together or make congruent what they feel with how they view themselves.
Congruence
a state of discrepancy or disharmony. Persons are experiencing a state of incongruence when there is a discrepancy between the perceived self and actual experience.
Incongruence
is the greater the incongruence between person’s perceived self or self-concept and their organismic experience, the more vulnerable they are.
Vulnerability
CARL RANSOM ROGERS’S THEORY
PERSON-CENTERED THEORY
ABRAHAM HAROLD MASLOW’S(1908-1970)
HOLISTIC-DYNAMIC THEORY
are referred to conative needs, with which the five needs have a striving or motivational character
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
is a systematic arrangement of needs as regards priority with which the basic needs must be met before less basic needs are aroused.
Hierarchy of needs