The humanistic perspective on personality deals exclusively with human behavior. Humanistic psychologists believe that human nature includes a natural drive towards personal growth‚ that humans have the freedom to choose what they do regardless of environmental factors‚ and humans are mostly conscious beings and are not controlled by unconscious needs and conflicts. They also believe that a person’s subjective view of the world is more important than objective reality. Two of the humanistic theorists
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Throughout the course of life evolution has taken its place on plants and animals. One of the greatest evolutionary changes was the transition of life in water‚ to the transition to life on land. As you can imagine‚ both organisms had challenges moving from this single cellular water environment to a multi-cellular land environment. While the change was difficult‚ this new environment would help organisms flourish in life‚ giving them the ability to reproduce more freely‚ and eat with less competition
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humans in the past. With that in mind‚ it can be true that evolutionary psychology is solely based on comparisons of behaviours on only what history allows us to look back on. Homosexuality and homicide are two adaptive behaviours which both might represent genetic adaption of behaviour to increase survival and reproduction. in terms of homosexuality‚ Zietsch et al (2008) explains his theories providing an explanation to this form of evolutionary psychology on page 62. Perhaps homosexuals do not prevent
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Evolutionary psychologists view human behavior and psychological traits as a result of evolutionary adaptation in response to reproductive needs – much like the concept of natural selection applied to reproduction‚ or sexual selection. Drawing from this perspective‚ evolutionary psychologists and professionals seek to explain the differences between male and female dating and mating rituals and sexual attitudes and how they have evolved throughout the centuries. For example‚ researchers employ the
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The Application of Humanistic Nursing in Patient With Asthma Nurses dedicated themselves in caring others therefore biases and personal prejudice is put aside in order to care to every client. Knowing the person intuitively and scientifically helps the nurse synthesize the most appropriate intervention. In the case study‚ the Theory of Humanistic Nursing by Patterson and Zderald serves as the framework in caring for the patient with asthma. Nurse knowing the other “Intuitively” The nurse must know
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Instant Gratification Mentalities in Popular Culture and Their Roots in Evolutionary and Cognitive Psychology Man and culture have an interesting history. Before the existence of religion‚ hunter-gatherers optimized their behavior for survival‚ and traits in favor of living in the moment were evolutionarily successful. If our early human counterpart found food‚ he needed to eat as much as he possibly could because he did not know when he would find his next meal. With the advent of religion‚ man
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Humanistic Perspective The focus of the humanistic perspective is on the self‚ which translates into "YOU"‚ and "your" perception of "your" experiences. This veiw argues that you are free to choose your own behavior‚ rather than reacting to environmental stimuli and reinforcers. Issues dealing with self-esteem‚ self-fulfillment‚ and needs are paramount. The major focus is to facilitate personal development. Two major theorists associated with this view are Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow.
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The psychological theoretical orientation chosen is the humanistic approach. There are six humanistic assumptions about people. First‚ is the democratic ideal‚ which is the belief in worth and dignity in all humans. Next‚ is that the emotional‚ internal world is dominant‚ and people should listen to what their internal world is trying to tell them. Another assumption‚ is that all living things are inclined towards growth and actualization (E. Sarno‚ personal communication‚ February 16‚ 2017). Also
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Humanistic therapy is the therapy used in humanism psychologists in order to treat a patient. Some psychologists started to disagree about the explanation of personality by the precedents psycho-theories. Because the theories ignore the qualities that make us unique to the other animal. Some of these psychologists started a humanism school. Humanism theory is started my Maslow and developed by Rogers. The humanism psychologists claimed to be the 3rd force after the behaviourism and psychoanalysis
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Evolution‚ in its most simple sense‚ is described as change over time. I believe it’s important that we understand how evolutionary thinking is relevant to understanding disease as an agent of natural selection because evolutionary thinking taps into two important fields: biology and medicine. It helps us understand the field of biology because evolution helps explain life; specifically differences‚ changes and developments to adapt. On the other hand‚ it helps us understand the field of medicine
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