The Humanistic Perspective

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The Humanistic Perspective

• Assumptions

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Assumptions about People

• To understand

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Assumptions about People

• You must study

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Assumptions about People

• People can only be understood as whole
  individuals in the context of their lives

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Assumptions about People

• The best way to know people is to study them as
  unique individuals
• This idiographic approach yields rich and valid
  data

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Assumptions about Life

• ? should be meaningful and applicable to all of us

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Assumptions about People

• People are inherently good

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Assumptions about Life

• The important things in life should be studied
  love, creativity, happiness. It is these
  conscious internal states that make us human.

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Assumptions about Life

• Life is driven by the decisions people make as
  they have free will to determine their own lives

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The Humanistic Perspective

• Assumptions

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How can we know about people?
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How should we see people if we want to
Understand them?
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This approach yields rich and valid data?
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Psychology should be ____________ and applicable
to ________________.
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People are inherently ___________.
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What should be of interest to Psychology?
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What drives life?
People have ____________ to determine their own
lives.