PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Positive Psychology, Nomothetic, Psychopathology

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Humanistic approach: approaches to studying personality that emphasis personal experience and belief system; they propose that people seek personal growth to fulfill their human potential, a process known as self actualization. They focus on subjective human experience, or phenomenology, and view each person as inherently good. It is not too concerned about the scientific study of personality. Maslow"s theory of motivation: he believed that the desire to become self actualized is the ultimate and most important human motive. Carl rogers: person centered approach to personality emphasise people"s personal understandings, or phenomenology. The therapist would create a supportive and accepting environment and would deal with the client"s problems and concerns as clients understood them. He speculated that most parents provide conditional love; they love their children as long as the children does what the parents want, this leads children to abandon their true feelings to keep only those who pleases and accept only those part of themselves that elicit parental love.