PSY E111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Unconditional Positive Regard, Humanistic Psychology, Psy
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An approach to personality that focuses on the self, subjective experience, and the capacity for fulfillment. Also asserts the fundamental goodness of people and their striving toward higher goals of functioning. Maslow: self-actualizing person: maslow proposed that we as individuals are motivated by a hierarchy of needs. Humanistic psychology had pervasive impact on counseling, education, child-rearing, and management. Concepts in humanistic psychology are vague and subjective and lacked scientific basis. Traits define a person"s predominant thoughts, feelings and behaviors. The big five: extraversion having an energetic approach toward the social and physical world. Facets are sociable, lively, active, assertive, and sensation-seeking: neuroticism, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience. Related to outcomes such as career success, criminal activity, health, and mortality. Are the big five meaningful in other cultures: roughly common across cultures. Person-situation controversy: power of the situation: people often behave less consistently than expected, traits may be enduring, but the resulting behavior in various situations is different.
