PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Abraham Maslow, Physical Attractiveness, Cotton Candy
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Part i : overview: humanistic approaches to psychology, rogers" fully functioning person, maslow"s self-actualizer. An optimistic and positive view of the person as inherently good. Views the human being as rational, purposeful, and autonomous, capable of creativity and experiencing deep and profound insights into reality. We are fundamentally good as a specie, we are rational, we are capable of rationality, we are capable of conscious intention and purpose, we are capable of autonomous self-regulation, The 3rd force of psychology, a viable viewpoint on human nature that is distinctive from both psychoanalysis (dark)and behaviourism (neutral, product of our learning history) The humanistic tradition in comparison with psychoanalysis and behaviourism adopts a substantially optimistic view of the human condition. From the humanistic view, all humans are essentially good and all of us intrinsically on a positive developmental trajectory. All of us come into the world with potentials, and we are constitutionally designed to realize these potentials.
