PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Abraham Maslow, Reductionism, Buddhist Philosophy
15 Mar 2016
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Focus on meaning of life for individuals desire to help person achieve understanding, wholeness & meaning. Focus on individual"s unique perception of the world. Humanistic theories: avoid reductionism, more idiographic than other approaches, most optimistic & positive approach *** Humanistic principles: understanding the life or experience as individual sees it, self-realization, trying to recognize the freedom individuals have and to realize their potential, create social situations, allowing them to reach their goals. Instinctoid motivation: not dominating, uncontrollable- unlike animal instincts, can be controlled,repressed, overlain by learning, cultural expectations, etc, motives are built in but not like animal instincts. Maslow"s theory rests on the idea that human motivation consists of a hierarchy of needs. Each level of needs emerges only when the needs of the previous level have been at least partly satisfied. Maslow argued that most of our behaviors are over- determined, by which he meant that they are simultaneously motivated by a number of different needs.
