class I wrote friendly‚ creative‚ emotional‚ helpful‚ and nice. I believe these can all be put into a similar cluster. These are things that for the most part I think are positive aspects of myself and what I like to think are a part of being a humanistic type of person. As we discussed more I created a sixth word‚ which was survivor (just as Saba mentioned during our discussion). This sixth word was relieving for me because as hard as it is to say I have survived a lot of trauma in my own past.
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Humanistic and Existential Personality Theories Matrix PSY/405 June 4‚ 2012 David Brueshoff Humanistic and Existential Personality Theories During the 1950’s psychodynamic conjectures was unable to keep its general acceptance. Psychotherapy started to bring on a matter of interest with restrictions of the conjecture‚ in particular psychoanalyzing humanistic way of doing things. Maslow and Rogers came up with a different way of handling the controversy inside the psychodynamic conjecture
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Cognitive approach The cognitive approach focuses on the way information is processed by humans. It looks at how we as individuals treat information and how it leads to responses. Cognitive psychologists study internal processes such as attention‚ language‚ memory‚ thinking and perception. The main assumption of this approach is that in when information is received it is then processed by the brain and this processing directs how we as individuals behave or justify why we behave the way we
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psychological orientation‚ or approach to therapy‚ is an integrative approach based around various psychological perspectives‚ while factoring in the client’s individual needs. Optimal Functioning My view of optimal mental health would be considered a period where an individual is able to maintain a normal level of functioning‚ without feeling overwhelmed with depression‚ anxiety‚ or eroticism. My opinion on the nature of people very much follows a humanistic approach. I think that people are good
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Humanistic and Existential Personality Theories A personality is similar to a fingerprint‚ it is distinctive. The Humanistic and Existential. Theories of personality illustrate self-actualization‚ motivation‚ existentialism and person-centered theory. Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs explicate the humanistic theory of motivation. Man achieves a situation in life established as self-actualization; nevertheless‚ the principle to achieving self-actualization a high level need‚ commence with
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Running head: BIOLOGICAL AND HUMANISTIC APPROACHES TO PERSONALITY Mileva Repasky PSYC 250 Jean M. Porter University of Phoenix Personality can be defined as “the complex of all the attributes-behavioral‚ temperamental‚ emotional and mental-that characterizes a unique individual.” (Princeton University‚ n.d.) Personality has been studied and explained for a long time and is linked directly to Maslow’s humanistic and biological theories. This paper seeks to describe the biological
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In reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s dark tale‚ Rappaccini’s Daughter‚ one immediately begins to question the seductive relationship between Beatrice and Giovanni‚ and the loving relationship between herself and her father. Beatrice is an interesting character because she has several distinct female qualities; she is intelligent‚ beautiful‚ sinister‚ maternal‚ and seductive‚ all dominant female characteristics not often seen in one character in mid-19th-century literature. Beatrice is also able to guard
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Behavioral vs. Humanistic Perspective I have chosen to discuss the behavioral perspective vs. the humanistic perspective. While the two are similar because they deal with behaviors‚ however its how behaviors are “learned” that makes them contrast to one another‚ creating in the long run a revolution in psychology. Behavioral perspective is defined as “perspective that focuses on observable behavior and emphasizes the learned nature of behaviors. (Davis‚ & Palladino‚ 2010) Perhaps the best
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Jason Manning Indiana University Humanistic-Existential Perspective Humanistic-Existential Perspective - Understanding of Human Nature Humanistic psychology‚ which is associated with theorists such as Carl Rogers and Fritz Perls and Existential psychology‚ which is associated with theorists such as Irvin Yalom and Victor Frankl share certain concepts that utilize a range of approaches with case conceptualization‚ therapeutic goals‚ intervention strategies‚ and research methodologies (Richert
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STRENGTH Many people have different qualities‚ but many people can argue what is the “best quality” you can have. Personally strength to me‚ is what everyone needs to get through life okay. You don’t realize how much strength you do have till you stop crying in that moment‚ and realize how strong you are and how little this problem can be. Strength to me is the state of being strong; the ability to maintain a moral position. The ability to take pain us not the only definition or example of how
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