Humanistic Personality Theory

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Humanistic Personality Theory
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Freudian Backlash

• Wanted to study psychologically healthy people
• People are more than just whats below the
  surface
• Searching for the fundamental goodness in all
  people
• Open yourself to world around you and experience
  the joy in living

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Abraham Maslow

• Hierarchy of needs
• Striving to be self-actualized
• Self-aware self-accepting
• Open spontaneous
• Loving caring
• Secure in who they are
• Problem-solving creativity peak

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Carl Rogers

• Emphasizes the present experience
• Stressed the human aspect of experience
• Personal choice
• Interpersonal relationships
• Intentions
• Purposes
• Spiritual experiences

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Carl Rogers

• People are basically good
• Actualizing tendency inborn growth that
  motivates all people (personal blueprints)
• Genuineness, acceptance and empathy help us grow
  and fulfill our inborn potential

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Genuineness

• Being open and aware of your own feelings
• Dropping your façade
• Being transparent and self-disclosing
• Being REAL

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Acceptance

• Unconditional Positive Regard love and
  acceptance regardless of circumstances
• Conditional positive regard doesnt allow someone
  to become fully-functioning (Rogers term for
  self-actualization)

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Empathy

• Listening, understanding, mirroring, and
  reflecting feelings
• Helping others know that you understand their
  feelings

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Self-Concept

• The way you view yourself
• Hope for self-evaluation to be congruent with
  others evaluations of you
• Makes for healthy self-concept
• Discomfort when evaluations are incongruent

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Conditions of Worth

• Feelings an individual experiences when the
  person, instead of the persons behavior is being
  evaluated
• You are not supposed to color on the walls!
• Bad Owen!
• Evaluate behaviors not people!

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Ideal vs. Perceived Selves

• Perceived Self self concept
• Ideal self perfect you
• Whats the difference?

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Self-Serving Bias

• Readiness to perceive oneself favorably
• People accept more responsibility for successes
  than failures
• Most people see themselves as better than average
• Everyone cant have an above average sense of
  humor!