PSYC-1105EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Abraham Maslow, Peak Experience, Factor Analysis
12 Jun 2018
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PSYC 1105: Introduction to Psychology
Thursday February 1 2018
TOPIC: PERSONALITY
HUMANISTIC APPROACH
Emphasizes personal responsibility, focus on the present and stress the importance of personal
growth.
Carl Rogers
● Suggests that if uninterrupted, humans move through life showing +ve characteristics and
will eventually become fully functioning persons.
● If they don’t succeed, it is because gaps have developed between their self-concept and
their perception of their self-concept or because they have received conditional positive
regard as children.
● Client-centred therapy focuses on providing unconditional positive regard.
● Well-adjusted individual has overlap between experience and self-concept.
Abraham Maslow
● Psychologically healthy people have attained self-actualization in their needs hierarchy,
in which they have achieved their fullest potential.
● Peak experiences: Instances when self-actualized people have powerful feelings of unity
within the universe and feel tremendous waves of power and wonder.
● Interest in the self-concept has remained a focus of research.
● Many of the concepts of humanistic theory are loosely defined.
● Maslow’s needs hierarchy!
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Document Summary
Emphasizes personal responsibility, focus on the present and stress the importance of personal growth. Suggests that if uninterrupted, humans move through life showing +ve characteristics and will eventually become fully functioning persons. If they don"t succeed, it is because gaps have developed between their self-concept and their perception of their self-concept or because they have received conditional positive regard as children. Client-centred therapy focuses on providing unconditional positive regard. Well-adjusted individual has overlap between experience and self-concept. Psychologically healthy people have attained self-actualization in their needs hierarchy, in which they have achieved their fullest potential. Peak experiences: instances when self-actualized people have powerful feelings of unity within the universe and feel tremendous waves of power and wonder. Interest in the self-concept has remained a focus of research. Many of the concepts of humanistic theory are loosely defined. Personality traits: specific dimensions along which individuals" personalities differ in consistent, stable ways.
