Do you agree

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Do you agree?

• I believe that humans are best understood as an
  integrated, organized whole rather than a group
  of differentiated parts.
• I believe that humans are inherently good.
• I believe that all people should be accepted and
  loved for who they are.

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The Humanistic Approach Holism

• We are best understood as an integrated,
  organized whole.
• Concerned with the study of what is healthy, or
  unbroken.
• Humanistic psychology is about discovering human
  potential and encouraging its development.

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Self-Actualization

• the full realization and use of ones talents,
  capacities, and potentialities
• Healthy development involves moving toward
• autonomy - depending on ones self and regulate
  ones own behavior
• openness - receiving information and feelings
  that are undistorted by wishes, fear, or past
  experiences

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Hierarchy of Human Needs

• Three Fundamentals
• basic need arrange themselves according to
  strength.
• the lower the need, the sooner it appears in
  development
• needs are fulfilled sequentially
• Failure to meet metaneeds results in pathogenic
  deprivation

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Research on the Need Hierarchy

• Very little empirical support for the theory
• rank ordering of needs
• age/need relationship
• Some evidence to support a two-level, rather than
  five-level, hierarchy

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The Actualizing Tendency

• an innate continual presence that pushes the
  individual toward genetically determined
  potentials
• All human needs serve to maintain, enhance, and
  actualize the person.

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Self-Actualizing Model

• Organismic Valuation Process
• innate capacity to judge for ourselves whether an
  experience promotes growth or debilitates it.
• Unconditional Positive Regard
• approval, acceptance, love
• Conditions of worth
• involves learning which behaviors are positive
  and worthy of acceptance, and which are negative
  and worthy of rejection
• Congruence Incongruence
• the extent to which we deny or accept our
  personal characteristics

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Implications of the Self-Actualizing Tendency

• Interpersonal Relationships
• Warmth
• Genuineness
• Empathy
• Interpersonal Acceptance
• Confirmation of the Other
• Helping Others
• let the other person be him/herself be yourself
• Freedom to Learn
• Creativity

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Self-Definition Social Definition

• Personality processes related to how we
  conceptualize who we are.
• Self-definition authentic self-actualization
• Social Definition commitment to conditions of
  worth to gain positive self-regard

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Evil

• the deliberate, voluntary, intentional infliction
  of cruel and painful suffering on another person
• not seen as inherent by Rogers and most humanists
• People behave malevolently only when they have
  been injured or damaged by experience
• Other humanists believe that benevolence
  malevolence are part of everyone

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Criticisms of the Humanistic Approach

• Are people really inherently benevolent?
• Use of vague and ill-defined constructs
• Feelingism - feelings alone do not provide and
  understanding of motivation
• Difficult to tease apart true self preferences
  from internalization of socialized conditions of
  worth
• Focus on the individual