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level: Humanistic approach

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level questions: Humanistic approach

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What is key assumption 1:Free will
What does key assumption 1 believe?- You have a choice in how we act and behave - we are an active agent - We are ‘self-determining’ and free from the causal influences of the past. - Separates out what is the intention of an individual from what has been created by other causes outside our control
What is key assumption 2?Self-actualisation and Maslow's hiearchy
What is Maslow's hiearchy?Physiological needs, saftery and security, love and belonging, self-esteem, self actualisation
What does the 2nd assumption believe?Everyone has the too fulfil their full potnetial, innate desire to achieve thier full potential, personal growth is essential for humans but not everyone is capable, barriers etc
What is key assumption 3?The self, congurence and conditions of worth
What is the self?The ideas and values that charactersises I and Me and includes perception and valuding of 'what I am' and 'What I can do'. Development of the self must be similar to the ideal self, what to do in the future
What is congruence?Self-concept and ideal self are seen to braodly match, Rogerian therapy. Incongurance can lead to depression, gap means that self acctulisation is not possible. To reduce the gap: client centred therapy cope with everyday life problmes, most problmes in adult life is due to childhood
What id conditions of worth?When a parent places limits or boundaires on thier love of their children : 'I will only love you if you are a doctor'
What is a strength of the humanistic approach?-Maslow's research to support self-actulisation -Eg: Maslow looked at 18 biographies of famous poeple Maslow viewed as being self-actualised eg: Albert Einstien. -Concluded they possessed 15 characteristics of a self-actulised person, like being highly creative and having an unusal sense of humor -However, the categories aren't operationalised and highly subjective with Maslow, research being conduted subjectivey as he assumed these qualities in people
Another strength of the humanistic approach?-Take an idiographic approach in understanding beahviour -Not creating 'laws' and 'rules' of what human behaviour looks like, like the nomothetic approach, uses more detailed analysis of personalised behaviour, giving more in-depth analysis -Approach acknowledges free will and therefore understands that each person's behaviour differs, which allows for the development of person centred therapies. -But, a problem with this is that it can be said that it doesn't meet the scientific method of psychology as it is too subjective about human behaviour
Weakness of Humanistic approach?-Not compatible with the aims of science, uses a subjective method of investiagion -Eg: self-actualisation critics can be seen to lack opertionalisation of what 'achievement' looks like for earch person, eg: creativity can differ from each peron and the approach doesn't outline a stand -Doens't fit with the terms of natural sciene as it makes it unable to test and generate objective research to understnad human behaviour as a whole as it uses a idiogrpahic approacch -Reduce the credibilty of psycholoy within the scientific field as it it too subjective
Another weakness of the humanistic approach?-Seen to have a culture bias -Eg: the idea of self-actualisation can be baised in individualistic cultures which places importance on the idea of independence -This can be seen through the idea of self-actualisation in which collectivst culture may see as selfish and against the norms of society -Therefore, Maslow's hierarchy within the holistic approach is culturally bound and can't be applied to socieites outside individualistic cultures