PSY 3121 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Behaviorism, Humanistic Psychology, Self-Actualization
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Emphasized conscious experience, human strengths and positive aspirations and free will. The new theorists credited the personality with the creative power to shape itself. Humanistic psychology reflected the disaffection of the 60s. Humanistic psychologists through behavior psychology was narrow, artificial and sterile; it was dehumanizing and reduced humans to the status of animals/machines. Humanists opposed deterministic tendencies of freud"s followers and how they minimized role of consciousness. Did more than anyone else to spark new movement. Driven to understand the greatest achievements of which we are capable. Studies small sample of psychologically outstanding people to determine how they differed from average people. He had an unhappy childhood and turned to school to escape inferiority. Eventually became a hero to the counter culture movement. Self actualization = the full development of one"s abilities and the realization of one"s potential. The needs in order of which they must be satisfied the physiological, safety, belonging and love, esteem and self actualization needs.
