PSYC85H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Behaviorism, Perspectivism, Antiscience
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Humanistic movement (hm) is known as the third force whereas the other two forces are behaviorism and psychoanalysis. Hm believed psychoanalysis to be pessimistic and behaviorism to be too objective and lack the richness of human experience. Hm is a mix of european existentialism and the optimism of american psychology. Existentialism is the doctrine that the individual is free and responsible for whate he makes of himself. He was preoccupied with the nature of human choice. He believed that there are two ways of living which is ethically or aesthetically. All people are confronted in one or another with the absurd nature of human existence. He observed the emergence of nihilism which is the notion that there are no absolute truths or values. He believed that nihilism marked the end of christianity and the emergence of perspectivism, that there are a number of interpretations of reality and all of them are equally valid.
