PSY230H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Hedonic Treadmill, Sigmund Freud, Martin Seligman
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Chapter 9 humanistic, existential, and positive aspects of psychology. Area of philosophy concerned with the meaning of human existence. People are active, conscious beings, always thinking. Rejects focus exclusively on self-concepts and cognitive structures, or exclusively on. Idea of a world is a human construction environmental contingencies. Ethical and spiritual matters are neither to be ignored nor explained away. Sartre(cid:859)s e(cid:373)phasis on the responsibility of individuals for their own decisions i. e. we are free actors. Phenomenological discrepancy how to people can perceive the same situation in two different ways. Emphasizes the personal worth of the individual. Mihaly csikszentmihalyi: characteristics of creative people, creativity can be conflicting e. g. wise/childish, clever/naiive, high levels of energ(cid:455) (cid:894)freud"s se(cid:454)ual energ(cid:455)(cid:895, have many masculine and feminine characteristics. Stress on the active and aware portions of the human population. Marti(cid:374) bu(cid:271)er(cid:859)s i-thou dialogue and how we adopt our existential idea through our relations with other human beings.
