PSY 4130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Humanistic Psychology, Psy, Positive Psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 4130
• Professor: Danielle Impey

Document Summary

Abraham maslow: usually recognized as the one most responsible for making humanistic psychology a formal branch of psychology, basic tenets of humanistic psychology. Little of value can be learned about humans by studying nonhuman animals. Subjective reality is the primary guide for human behavior. Studying individuals is more informative than studying what groups of individuals have in common. A major effort should be made to discover those things that expand and enrich human experience. Research should seek information that will help solve human problems. The goal of psychology should be to formulate a complete description of what it means to be a human being: hierarchy of needs. Human needs are arranged in a hierarchy. The lower the needs are in the hierarchy, the more basic and similar to animals" needs they are. The higher the needs in the hierarchy, the more distinctly human they are.