Chapter 12 Experience, Existence, the Meaning of Life: Humanistic and Positive Psychology
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Chapter 12 experience existence the meaning of life humanistic and positive psychology answer
match each element of humanistic psychology to its definition.
what term describes an individual’s particular experience of the world?
match each humanistic concept to the most relevant example.
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Chapter 12
Experience, Existence, the
Meaning of Life: Humanistic and
Positive Psychology
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Humanism
An area of philosophy that
emphasizes the personal
worth of the individual and
the importance of human
values
“The third force”
◦ Emphasizes the creative,
spontaneous, and active
nature of human beings
◦ Third after psychoanalysis
and behaviorism
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Humanism
• Focus on “higher” end of human
experience
• eg. creativity, human potential
• Introspective
• Values unique person
(idiographic)
• Non-deterministic: advocates
free-will
, + Phenomenology:
Awareness Is Everything
◼ At the center of humanity
◼ Phenomenology is psychologically more important
than the world itself
◼ one’s conscious experience of the world; everything
a person hears, feels, and thinks
◼ The central insight (of humanistic psychology):
according to some, awareness is all that matters;
reality exists, but it has to be perceived to matter
◼ Basis of free will: the realization that only one’s
present experience matters; if the past is gone, the
future is not here yet, so we can CHOOSE what to
3 think, feel, and do
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