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What is Humanistic
Psychology
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Application
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Movement in Education
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Basic Assumptions
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Strengths
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Significant Theorists
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Weaknesses
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Key Terms

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Study of Psychology that focuses on the study of the whole person.
Look at behavior not only through eyes of observer, but through eyes of person.
Study the meanings, understandings, and experiences involved in growing, teaching, and learning
Study how people are influenced by their self-perceptions and the personal meanings attached to their experiences.
Focus on peoples responses to internal needs in shaping behavior.
Humanism

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Task #1
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvySe_GFwE4
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Write down three things you got from the video
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What do you think Self-Actualization/Humanistic
Psychology is all about?

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Task #2
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Read Article on Cognitive Psychology
 http://psychology.about.com/od/historyofpsycholo gy/a/hist_humanistic.htm
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Write down 3 Strengths of Humanistic
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Summarize the weaknesses
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What was Maslow’s contribution to Psychology?

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3 Really Basic Assumptions
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Other Universally agreed views of Humanism
Humanism

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An individuals behavior is primarily determined by his/her perception of the world around him
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Perception: Allows us to organize, interpret, and act on outside stimuli based on past experiences
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Individuals are not solely the product of their environment
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Individuals are internally directed and motivated to fulfill their human potential
Humanism

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Humanism

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Co-Founder of Humanistic
Psychology with Carl Rogers
Believed we are all biologically driven to achieve selfactualization
Came up with Hierarchy of
Needs theory that is most important humanistic theory.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=gi9lGv1jJv8
Theorists

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Co-Founder of
Humanistic Psychology with Abraham Maslow
Main contribution was in clinical therapy and applications of
Humanism
Started Person-Centered
Psychology
Theorists

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Task #3
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Read Article on Humanistic Psychology
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Especially the parts on Introduction and Carl
Rogers.
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List some factors that distinguish Humanistic from other approaches.
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What did Carl Rogers do? What are some things he came up with that were important?
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Keep this article in folders for later!!

Task #4: Copy this down and fill in the blanks!
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Study of Psychology that focuses on the study of the _______ person.
whole
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Look at __________ not only through eyes of observer, but through eyes of person.
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Study the ________s, understandings, and experiences involved in growing, teaching, and learning
Study how people are influenced by their self-perceptions and the personal meanings attached to their ________.
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Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs
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Self-Awareness
Ideal Self
Self-Actualization
Self-Fulfillment
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Person-Centered Therapy
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Holistic
Congruence
Empathy
Unconditional Positive Regard
Conditional Positive Regard
Incongruence
Conditions for Growth
Humanism

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Day 4: Maslow
Task #5
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Write down three important things about Hierarchy of needs
Use the article to help you
Then right down 2-3 key words for each of the stages of hierarchy
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Day 5: PCT

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Idea that students have a need to become selfactualized adults.
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Need classroom freedom to be creative and gain a desire to learn.
Basic Objectives of Humanistic Education are to encourage students to:
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Be self-directed and independent
Take responsibility for their learning
Be creative and interested in the Arts
Be Curious about the world around them
Ask Questions of things? Why, Who says, Purpose?

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Emphasizes individual choice and responsibility
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Satisfies most people’s idea of what being human is b/c it values personal ideas and selffulfillment
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Provides researchers w/flexible framework for observing behavior b/c it considers the person

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Many concepts are too vague
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Experiences can be taken different ways by different individuals
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Makes conclusions formed from experiences hard to verify
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Makes research unreliable
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Not a true science b/c it involves too much common sense and not enough objectivity

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Physiological
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Basic Human needs of survival; breathing, food, water, sex, sleep
Safety
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Security in lives important things: health, property, family, job, etc.
Love/Belonging
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Strong relationships: friendship, family, sexual intimacy
Esteem
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Feeling a sense of worth/respect: Self-esteem, confidence, respect for/by others
Self-Actualization
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Highest point of potential: Person is moral, creative, non-prejudice, accepting of truths (facts) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfH7inToIFM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd7tYHqAR_8

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Definition
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Person-Centered-Therapy that uses congruence, empathy, and unconditional positive regard to develop a good relationship with a client.
Differences in Approach
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Didn’t follow previous perspectives ideas on patients
Basic motivating idea behind approach was that patients were active and responsible beings who participated in creating or at least in maintaining their mental illness states.
Differences in Approach
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Previous thought was the psychologists regarded patients as passive, and the psychologists were the intervention or cure.
Humanistic psych’s, wanted set up the conditions that would enable patients to choose to help themselves, rather than to require a doctor to administer interventions
Main approach of therapy is to move person from incongruence to congruence.
Key Terms

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Founded by Carl Rogers
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How He approaches it
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBkUqcqRChg
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Meetings w/Gloria
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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m30jsZx_Ngs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX_Y3zUPzEo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHxl5NtcDow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L19nXMvbS8E
Key Terms

Key Terms

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When there is a good fit between perceived self, ideal self, and real self
The person has
and is able to move towards self-actualization.
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One of three main cogs of Roger’s PCT
“machine”
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Capacity to recognize or understand another’s state of mind or emotion
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One of three main cogs in Rogers PCT
“machine”
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When one person (therapist) is completely accepting toward another person.
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Not just a showing of acceptance, but an attitude that is then demonstrated through behavior.
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One of three main cogs of Roger’s PCT
“machine”
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The need to become what one believes he/she is capable of being, realizing one’s own potential
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Highest/last step on Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs.
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Concept that one exists as an individual, separate from other people, with private thoughts.
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May also include the understanding that other people are similarly aware of individuality
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Achievement of one's aspirations, hopes, etc. through one's own efforts
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• Having a self-concept (ideal self/perceived self) and behavior that do not match one another.
• Makes it hard to reach self-actualization
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Positive regard rewarded based on things that society may like, not for things that make person better.
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Leads to people only liking themselves if they meet the standards of others
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• Use of congruence, empathy, and unconditional positive regard by counselor/therapist to help in therapy and give room for GROWTH towards self-actualization
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