PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Peak Experience, Interpersonal Relationship
13 Apr 2018
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Its basic interest is on meaning of life and our existence. Focus on our interpretation of the world around us. Takes the ideographic approach- focuses on uniqueness of each individual rather than generalized. Anti-reduction: against analyzing personality into small bits, wants to understand the whole. Emphasizes empathy and stresses the good in humans. Human needs are innate and instinctoid (can be controlled and repressed) We can modify our human needs by cultural expectations and learning. Lowest needs are the strongest, most demanding and animal like: they emerge in early evolutionary, they appear in early development of the individual, related to survival. Higher needs are the weakest, least demanding and human like: they emerge late in evolution, appear in the late development of the individual, related to happiness, inner peace. Behaviour is eby the several or all basic needs at the same time rather then only one.
