PSY 450 Exam 4 (Part 3)

Maslow's contributions and ideas

• Formal of emergence of humanistic psychology occurred slowy

• Set forth a holistic dynamic and purposive system of psychology

• Attempted to maintain scientific integrity

• Focused on motivation

Maslow's ideas and contributions

• Arranged motives into hierarchy that culminates in self-actualization

• Applied being and deficiency to a variety of psychological functions

• Developed descriptions of common characteristics

• Investigated metalevel awareness in humans, particularly healthy and successful humans

G. Allport's ideas and contributions

• Investigated the psychology of personality

• Leibnizian and Lockean tradition

• Distinguished between idiographic and nomothetic approaches to psychology

• investigated the conditions that impact prejudice

• Studied function autonomy

Who investigated the psychology of religion in his classic book "The individual" and "His Religion"

• G. Allport

• Rogers

• Maslow

• Frankl

What is Rogers ideas and contributions?

• Founded person-centered therapy

• Applied research techniques to the evaluation of therapy: his therapy is non-directive

• His psychology focuses on the phenomena field

• Explored the tension between the self and the ideal self

• Advocated empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard

Frankl's ideas and contributions

• Opposed the narrowness of other forms of psychology

• System of logotherapy

• Noogenic neurosis

• Paradoxical intention

System of Logotherapy

• Mans search for meaning, outlines the importance of meaning in human life

• Authentic existence depends on our recognition and confrontation of the facts of our existence and our existentialism

Paradoxical intention

• The ability to do the opposite of what we most want to do

• Mans search for meaning, outlines the importance of meaning in human life

Contributions and ideas of Heidegger

• Investigated ontological questions, particularly the meaning of individual existence

• Described the human sense of finding ourselves in a world we did not choose

• Umwelt and mitwell may make authenticity more difficult

• Authentic existence depends on our recognition and confrontation of the facts of our existence and our existentialism.

Umwelt

• The environment

• The community