PS101 Lecture Notes - Peak Experience, Role Theory, Palpitations
Continued
Self-Actualized Personality
● Healthy
○ Balanced, autonomous, ethical, driven/mission/purpose, humour, live in reality
comfortably, peak experiences → awe, insight (can be individualized)
Evolutionary Take on Maslow’s
Needs Hierarchy
(top layers compressed to esteem)
Humanistic Approaches
● Carl Rogers Self Theory
○ Central concept = self-concept
■ Organized, consistent set of perceptions and beliefs about oneself (who
am I?)
■ Relatively stable
■ Dose of distortion = positive self-concept
● Congruence vs incongruence (distortion from reality)
● Anxiety = high incongruence
■ Developed in childhood and learned from others
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Document Summary
Balanced, autonomous, ethical, driven/mission/purpose, humour, live in reality comfortably, peak experiences awe, insight (can be individualized) Organized, consistent set of perceptions and beliefs about oneself (who am i?) Developed in childhood and learned from others. Child needs unconditional positive regard to develop self-worth. I love you but i don"t like what you did . Narcissism (cid:3247)all about me(cid:3248) driven to maintain overly high, positive self-concept. Trephining / trepanning hole in skull. Release demons (believed evil forces were inside, drilled and scraped holes in skull to. First evidence we have that people tried to treat psychological disorders, 3000 years ago. Phlegm, black bile, yellow bile, blood - humours. Said it was something about how the body works. Swing back to spiritual causes after hippocrates. People with mental disabilities presumed to be dangerous and practicing witchcraft. Several questions can help determine whether a behaviour is abnormal: Social norm deviance - use norms or standards of society.
