PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Satisficing, Laity, Jean-Paul Sartre

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2B03
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Part v: experience and awareness: humanistic and cross-cultural psychology. Chapter 13: experience, existence and the meaning of life: humanistic and positive psychology. Goal of humanistic psychology the mind is fundamentally different than other objects: human mind is aware has two implications. Psychology needs to address the phenomenon of awareness. Self-awareness brings up many uniquely human phenomena that do not arise when studying other object (molecule, rock etc) Will power, reflective thinking, imagination introspection, self-criticism, aspirations, creativity, happiness, and free will. Humanists seek to understand awareness, free will, and the aspects of the mind that are uniquely human and give life. Central insight of humanistic psychology ones phenomenology is psychologically more important than the world itself: phenomenology ones conscious experience of the world; only ones present thoughts and feelings matter. Introspection observe own perceptions and thought processes. Began in europe in the mid 1800s; soren kierkegaard, friedrich nietzsche, martin heidegger, ludwig binswanger,