PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nomothetic, Reductionism, Nuclear Family
2 Jan 2020
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Desire to help person achieve understanding, wholeness, meaning. Focus on individuals unique perception of the world. Uniqueness of human experience and life course, and perception of the world around the. Avoid reductionism (not trying to find basic pieces, but the big picture as a whole), the wh greater than the sum of its parts. Cannot put small parts together to seek who an individual is, need to see them as a whole. Idiographic rather than nomothetic (nomoethetic - scientific, true of everyone), primarily interested in each individual as an individual, everyone is different, need to understand th individual person. The primary study of psychology should be experiencing person. Psychology had focused too much on animal minds at the time, basic learning proce behaviorists perspective. Choice, creativity and self-realization are the concerns of humanist psychologist. Higher level processes, make life choices, draw upon creative resources, self realizati. Becoming more of who you are, expanding capabilities.
