PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Unconditional Positive Regard, Junk Food, Self-Determination
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Lecture 9 the self and social cognition. An optimistic view of the person as inherently good. Views the human being as a rational, purposeful, and autonomous, capable of creativity and experiencing deep and profound insights into reality. We are capable of self-regulation, and also great accomplishment. The first movement that defined the 20th century: psychoanalysis (freud), behaviourism (learning theorists), Humanism is the 3rd-demarkated from the others by its consistently optimistic view of human nature (note testable) It is a viable viewpoint on human nature that is distinctive from both other movements. The organism has but one basic tendency and striving to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism . There is one motive in all of us to actualize (relaize) the potential within them. We have a true self the person we are supposed ot become and our responsibility is to actualize this true self. Much of our pathology and misery is the failure to recognize this.
