PSYC 231 Study Guide - Scientific Method, Belongingness, Motivation

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 231
• Professor: Angela Howell- Moneta

Document Summary

Human interests and values are of primary importance. Emphasize human strengths + aspirations, conscious free will, and fulfillment of human potential. Focused on negative neuroses and psychoses. Focuses only on objective observation of overt behaviour. Mechanized robots" likened to lab rats + slow computers. Each person is born with the same set of instinctive needs that allow us to grow, develop, and fulfill our potential. Hierarchy of five innate needs: arranged from strongest to weakest, that activates + directs behaviour. Lower needs need to be fulfilled before higher needs become influential. Can be affected/overridden by learning, social expectations, and fear of disapproval. Needs are instinctive, but behaviours are learned subject to variation between individuals. Generally only one need will dominate personality at one time. Characteristics of needs: the lower the need, the greater its strength, potency, and priority, higher needs appear later in life. Self-actualization midlife: higher needs are less necessary for survival gratification is postponed.