PSYCO333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Eudaimonia, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Word Stem

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO333
• Professor: Jamin Blatter

Document Summary

Phenomenological- a view that emphasizes the importance of your own personal experiences. Self-actualization- a process of growing in ways that that maintain or enhance the self. Promotes congruence an integration within the self and a coherence between your self and your experiences: actualizing tendency is a part of human nature, organismic valuing process- the internal signal that indicates whether self-actualization is occurring. Fully functioning person- a pe(cid:396)so(cid:374) (cid:449)ho"s ope(cid:374) to life"s e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)es a(cid:374)d (cid:449)ho is self-actualizing. Is always coercive: it pushes you into doing things. Contingent self-worth- self-a(cid:272)(cid:272)epta(cid:374)(cid:272)e that"s (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) pe(cid:396)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:272)e i(cid:374) so(cid:373)e do(cid:373)ai(cid:374) of life: essentially means the same thing as conditional self-regard. Contingencies can be motivating though, (cid:449)he(cid:374) a failu(cid:396)e happe(cid:374)s, it"s (cid:373)o(cid:396)e upsetti(cid:374)g if you have a contingency in that domain and can result in a loss of motivation. Holding oneself to these conditions has costs: