PSYCH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12.4-12.5: Headon, Personality Psychology, Personal Construct Theory
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Humans make healthy choices that create their personalities. Humanistic psychologists: emphasized a positive, optimistic view of human nature that highlights people"s inherent goodness and their potential for personal growth. Existentialist psychologists: focused on the individual as a responsible agent who is free to create and live his or her life while negotiating the issue of meaning and the reality of death. Humanistic-existential approach: integrates these insights with a focus on how personality can become optimal. Self actualizing tendency: the human motive toward realizing our inner potential: major factor in personality, hierarchy of needs: a model of essential human needs arranged according to priority. Basic psychological and safety needs must be satisfied before a person can afford to focus on higher-level psychological needs. People report to be happier during these times. Existential approach: a school of through that regards personality as governed by an individual"s ongoing choices and decisions in the context of the realities of life and death.
