PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Antireductionism, Abraham Maslow, Enculturation
21 Nov 2018
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Focus on the meaning of life for the individual. Desire to help the person achieve understanding, wholeness, and meaning. Focus on individual"s unique perception of the world: idiosyncratic view of personality understand the individual so we can meet their needs. Anti-reductionism: the whole is better than the sum of its part, focus on the whole person. Motives are not instincts, but instinctoid: like instincts but not. Ability to be modi ed can be controlled and adapted. Overlain by learning, cultural expectations, personal experiences, etc. Organized in evolutionary order old to new. Organized in order of human needs (we need physiological needs the most, without them we die) Needs develop over time once one level of needs are met you begin to develop higher needs. Overlapping of emergence of needs you only need partial satisfaction of a lower level need before the next level need emerges. When unmet = anxiety: esteem needs, for yourself and others.
