PSYC 2230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Peak Experience, Humanistic Psychology, Abusive Power And Control

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2230
• Professor: Frank Marchese

Document Summary

Humanistic psychology looks at the persistent motive within individuals to become competent in dealing with the environment. Process of achieving wholeness is never complete; striving called actualizing tendency, innate. The only motive is growth; analyzed by the attempts by an organism to maintain, enhance, and reproduce itself. Striving for fulfillment is importantly influenced by our environment ; experiences can help or hinder our growth; social interactions important. Experiences in infancy influence psychological growth; actualizing tendency created a need for positive regard and positive self-regard. Our feelings of positive regard come from our others as well as from the self, come from interactions with parents in what rogers called unconditional positive regard. Means that a person is loved and accepted regardless of behavior; hence we receive experiences that allow us to see that we are loved regardless of what we do.