PSYCH 2B03 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Experimental Psychology, Enculturation, Self-Awareness
23 Jan 2018
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Interested in the meaning of life and existence for the individual. Less interested in how the personality of the person comes about. Interested in assisting the individual in understanding and achieving wholeness, meaning and integration in life. Focus on person unique perception and interpretation of the world around us. Has an idiographic view: we are unique and individual people. Maslow"s basic outlook and philosophy: felt it was wrong to look only at one side of people and personality, psychoanalysts look only at animalistic and negative side. Monday, november 13, 2017: behaviourists look only at mechanical, external, environmental in uences, felt that psychology of people based too much on the problem, unhealthy cases, neglecting the healthy, adjusted and happy. All human needs are innate/instinctoid distinct from animal needs which are dominating and uncontrollable human needs can be controlled, repressed human needs can be overlain by learning, cultural expectations
