PSYCH 2B03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Existential Therapy, Personal Construct Theory, Existentialism
15 Dec 2013
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Chapter 13 experience, existence, and the meaning of life. Classic humanistic psychologists believe that the mind should not resemble a type of science: fundamentally different from molecules or atoms because it is aware. Includes willpower, reflective thinking, imagination, introspection, self-criticism, happiness, free will, etc. Goal of humanistic psychologists is to the aspects of the mind that are uniquely human and give life meaning. Phenomenology: one"s conscious experience of the world is psychologically more important than the world itself. Focuses on phenomenology, free will, meaning of life, and questions of existence. Arose as a reaction against european rationalism -> gone too far to attempt to account for everything (science, etc. ) Thrown-ness: time, place, and circumstances in which you happened to be born: existence/thrown-ness in 21st century is difficult because seems to have no arching meaning, religion plays a smaller role than the past.
