humanism v positive psychology

Which of the following is a clear example of a similarity between Humanism and Positive Psychology? Both ...

• use behavioural interventions with double-blind, placebo controlled research support.

• consider that psychology as a field has focused too much on the negative aspects of human experience

• use the term self actualisation to describe a person flourishing as their best self

• see trusting instinctive gut feelings as an indication of being your best self.

Which of the following is NOT a criticism of an aspect of humanistic theory?

• it may encourage selfishness

• it is no longer a useable, useful theory

• the idea of a hierarchy (Maslow) is too rigid

• it has been associated with the self help movement

The rise of humanism as a theory came some what, as a reaction to the fields of:

• Behaviourism and psychoanalytic theory

• Cognitive and behaviourist theory

• psychoanalytic and gestalt theory

• Gestalt and cognitive theory

Select the correct answers that indicate how Humanist theory characterises human nature? Humans:

• are all similar

• are all individual

• have little free will

• have free will

Humanists did not use the large scale numerical research evidence that positive psychology does. Which of the following gives the best explanation of why?

• Abram and Maslow were clinical psychologists not academics

• if each person is an individual you can only gather qualitative data not quantitative

• The lack of computers in the 40's and 50's meant there was little large scale research