1. Personality! (Mods. 44-46) Social-Cognitive Perspective (Mod 46)
Psychoanalytic Perspective (Mod 44)
Social-Cognitive Perspective (Mod 46)
Trait Perspective (Mod 46)
Humanistic Perspective (Mod 45)

2. Humanistic Perspective
By the 1960s, psychologists became discontent with Freud’s negativity and the mechanistic psychology of the behaviorists.
Healthy v. sick (relate to healthcare=sick care). See, he’s just a happy guy!
Abraham Maslow
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Carl Rogers
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3. Self-Actualizing Person
Maslow proposed that we as individuals are motivated by a hierarchy of needs. Beginning with physiological needs, we try to reach the state of self-actualization—fulfilling our potential.
Human Potential. Compare to their drawings of the actual pyramid. He developed this by studying healthy people rather than severely troubled people. Only 1% of the population reaches the top. When lower needs are met, we pursue self actualization.

4. SA are self-aware, self-accepting, open and spontaneous, loving and caring, and not paralyzed by other’s opinions.
“acquired enough courage to be unpopular, to be unashamed about being openly virtuous”
College students most likely to become self-actualized were “privately affectionate to those of their elders who deserve it.” and “secretly uneasy about the cruelty, meanness and mob spirit so often found in young people.”

5. Carl Rogers
Goal of every organism is to fulfill the capabilities of our genetic blueprint – actualizing tendency
Then move into c-map notes on board. Will get to Rogers more when we discuss treatment of psych disorders: client-centered, or person-centered approach to therapy

6. How he assesses a personality: perceived self v ideal self comparison.

7. Evaluating the Humanistic Perspective
Humanistic psychology has a pervasive impact on counseling, education, child-rearing, and management.
Concepts in humanistic psychology are vague and subjective and lack scientific basis.
Some view these theories as overly optimistic and that they ignore the nature of human evil
Some argue that humanistic view lead to self-indulgence, narcissism and self-centeredness – Western view of hyper-individualism
Who decides if someone is self-actualized?