AQA Psychology Humanistic Approach

A sequence of needs that must be satisfied for humans to reach their full potential describes...

• Maslow's hierarchy of needs

• Congruence

• Free will

• Conditions of worth

Striving to reach your full potential is...

• Congruence

• Self actualisation

• Self concept

• Conditions of worth

Congruence is...

• When self actualisation occurs

• When ideal self and self concept match

• When parents tell their children they will only love them if they meet certain criteria

• When humans make choices that are not determined by biological or external forces

Client centred therapy aims to...

• Make people better

• Impose conditions of worth

• Look at people's pasts

• Reduce the gap between the self concept and ideal self

Which of the following is not a strength of humanistic psychology?

• Unlike other approaches, it recognises that humans can have free will

• It has limited empirical evidence

• 1It is seen as positive in comparison to the psychodynamic approach which dwells on the past

• It is holistic, looking at the whole person

• It has influenced counselling psychology

Who developed the hierarchy of needs?

• Maslow

• Freud

• Wundt

• Rogers

The humanistic approach can be accused of culture bias because...

• It ignores Western cultures

• It focusses on collectivist cultures such as India and China

• Individualistic cultures won't find the concepts of self actualisation useful as they don't care about personal growth

• Collectivist cultures do not focus on improvement of an individual person and so would not recognise the concepts of personal growth as useful.

How did Rogers attempt to make his therapy more objective?

• He explained how the hierarchy of needs was scientific

• He created the 'Q-Sort' as an objective measure of congruence

• He invented the F-scale to measure authoritarianism

• He invented psychoanalysis to discover what was hidden in the subconcious

Which of these does not explain why the humanistic approach is not scientific?

• Rogers produced the Q Sort to test congruence objectively

• It lacks empirical evidence to support concepts such as the hierarchy of needs and the role of conditions of worth

• It is anti-scientific, preferring to recognise subjectivity in therapists and accept that not everything can be studied objectively

• It is holistic, so it refuses to break aspects of human experience into separate parts, meaning that individual aspects of behaviour cannot be separately and in a controlled way

Which is not an aim of counselling therapy?

• To give clients unconditional positive regard

• To free clients from 'conditions of worth' imposed upon them by parents

• To give clients a chance to study how their past impacts on their lives

• For clients to work out solutions to their own problems