PSYCH 2B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Humanistic Psychology, Belongingness, Reductionism
9 Dec 2018
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Focus on meaning of life for individual. Desire to help person achieve understanding, wholeness, meaning. Focus on individual"s unique perception of the world. Avoid reductionism the view that we can understand the whole person by breaking that person down into pieces or elements. More idiographic than other approaches (trying to understand each unique person to help them; not generalized to population; focus on self-development) Instinctoid motivation: the motivating instincts that are a part of human nature can be controlled and repressed (unlike dominating, uncontrollable animal instincts) through learning, experiences, social requirements, societal/cultural expectations. Bottom to top, instinctoid motivational tendencies emerge in this order: biological psychological, early late, evolutionarily old evolutionarily recent. The development of needs: don"t have to fully satisfy one need to move onto the next; requires only partial (10-15%) satisfaction of needs to begin fulfillment of the next. Biological motives at the bottom are shared most throughout animal community.
