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Humanistic psychology is the belief that humans were born naturally good and it focuses on the positive aspects of people and their lives. This means focusing on the present and not looking back on the past or toward the future. People have the ability to change negative things into positive ones with their own will. The goal of life should always be to achieve personal growth and understanding.Humanistic psychology focuses on people as a whole and tries to fulfill a person's full potential.



During the first half of the twentieth century, Behaviorism and Psychoanalysis were the most dominate branches of psychology. However, around 1950, Humanistic Psychology developed and became known as the "third force" in psychology. Humanistic psychology was different from Behaviorism and Psychoanalysis because Humanistic theorists believe that people are born as good people and if they develop some sort of negative behavior they also have the ability to change it and turn it into something positive. However, Behaviorism and Psychoanalysis both go hand-in-hand with Humanistic Psychology except Humanistic Psychology focuses on people holistically. Humanistic Psychology wasn't researched well in the beginning. This is because of their belief that everyone is basically good and the client knows the most about themselves. If humanists were to assess a client, that is like saying that they know more about the clients behaviors, emotions, and thoughts. There are no documented experiments because Humanists believe that experiments show that the psychologist knows more about his client than they do themselves; which would be a contradiction to Humanistic beliefs. That itself would be a contradiction of humanistic belief. There are two major thinkers within Humanistic Psychology and they are Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.

"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life" 

Maslow was one of the major thinkers in humanistic psychology. He was born April 1, 1908 in Brooklyn, New York. Maslow obtained his PhD in psychology in 1934 from the University of Wisconsin. In 1943 he created the concept of **hierarchy of needs**. This concept was developed through the observation of monkeys. The hierarchy of needs is a pyramid and on each level of the pyramid are different needs, on the bottom of the pyramid are the most basic needs and the more complex needs are farther up on the pyramid. Maslow published a book in 1954 called [|Motivation and Personality] which expanded on the idea of the hierarchy of needs. He published a book in 1962 entitled //[|Toward a Psychology of Being].// He called humanistic psychology the **"third force"** in psychology; the first force was Behaviorism and the second was Psychoanalysis.





"An assumption unusual in psychology today is that the subjective human being has an important value which is basick; that no matter how he may be labeled and evaluated his a human person first of all, and most deeply. "

"When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."

Carl Rogers was also another major thinkers of Humanistic Psychology. He was born January 8, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois and died February 4, 1987 in San Diego California. Carl Rogers believed in something called the **actualizing tendency.** The actualizing tendency says that people are born with motivation and to develop their potential to the fullest extent. Carl Rogers adopted the **Q-Sort assessment** from Stephenson and adapted it to his Client Centered Therapy. The Q-Sort assessment was based on 100 cards with different personality traits on each. The first time a patient picks the cards, they would have to answer whether the card was very much like how they were feeling at the moment or if it was very unlike how they were feeling at the moment. Afterwards the cards would be reshuffled and the patient would pick again, this time they would answer with how they would like to feel after the therapy is completed. He was given the award for distinguished professional contributions to psychology by the APA in 1972.







Rogers sees people as good and healthy or at least not bad or ill. ex. mentle health is considered a normal life. Force of life is called actualizing tendency and is defined as the built motivation found in everyday life. Believed that all humans strive to succeed in life. At times Rogers would ask, why do we want air, water, and food? Why do we seek safety, love, and a sence of competence? His answer to this was that it is a part of us, it is in our nature as human beings to strive to success. While among doing these things, humans have created culture and a society. Social is in our nature, but while creating culture it developes a life of it's own right. Later, it leads to a human dying out with it. Societies, complex cultures, and technology has helped humans to survive, but could also be harming us and possibly even destroying us.





1. You just can not judge a book by it's cover. You need to know a person entirely to really know them. 2.You are not alone in the world even though people think they are. Humans are naturally social people no matter what. We crave social attention, some people more than others. 3. You are who you are because of the events that have happened in your past and what you could be currently going through. Your past and present will tell you what your future will hold for you. 4. Every person has a free will and is knows everything they do before doing it. Whatever choices you make do no randomly happen. At some point it is processed through your mind ( your conscience). Animals do things by instincts which means that their actions are not thought out. 5. Some things people do just come along automatically like values or meanins in life. What or how they do this is a personal choice. A personal identity is what makes one person different from another. 







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1.) **__Behaviorism __**: the behavior that human or animal can be accurately learned only through examination and analysis of objectly observable and qualifiable events in contrast with subjective mental states.    2.) **__Theories__** : a proposed reason whose status is still problematical, in contrast to well-established propositions that are reguarded as reporting matters of actual fact. 3.) **__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Psychoanalysis __**: a systematic structure of theories concerning the relationship of conscious and unconscious psychological processes. <span style="color: #e47272; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 90%;">4.) **__Actualizing__ __Tendency__**: works on the grounds that every living thing no matter how simple or complex the organism is, it will be in the world doing its best to survive since we are naturally programed to do it. 5.) **__Self__** **__Actualization:__** A driving life force that will ultimately lead to maximizing one's abilities and determine the path of one's life. It is predominately found in Maslow's heirarchy of needs theory as the final level of psychological development that can be achieved when all basic and mental needs are fulfilled and the "actualisation" of the full personal potential takes place.

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