PSYC 231 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 psyc 231.docx
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Rejected notion that past events exert a controlling influence on present behavior: childhood experiences affect the way we perceive our environment & ourselves, current feelings have a greater impact on our personality, personality can only be understood from our own viewpoint based on subjective experiences, reality as consciously perceived by each of us and does not always coincide with objective reality. Actualization tendency: the basic human motivation to actualize, maintain and enhance the self (encompass all physiological & psychological needs: begins in the womb, facilitating human growth by providing for the differentiation of the physical organs and the development if physiological functioning, responsible for maturation > changes are programmed into our genetic makeup and al brought to fruition by the actualization tendency.
