PSY BEH 150C Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Unconditional Positive Regard, Abraham Maslow, Psychopathology

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 150C
• Professor: Zalta

Document Summary

Unique because it"s about being a genuine, good human, and really these techniques you can use across your relationships and in your general life. Psychological theories really draw from others and stack on top of one another. The earlier big theorists made theories about how people work. Now it is a focus on micro-theories; grand theories of psychology. Almost all of these stemmed from childhood experiences, even though none of them were child psychologists. Carl rogers says that plants can grow and live in all kinds of conditions, but they can only thrive when they have certain conditions. Foster and nurture the growth with good conditions, and by themselves the plants will flourish. All we need to do is simply provide the conditions and allow the person to flourish. Humanism was a reactions against freud"s approach. Abraham maslow as well said to strive for self-actualization , which. Rogers thinks that everything happens to get there, while maslow thought.