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Humanistic
Basic concepts
Critisism
Very subjective: The importance of individual experience makes it difficult to objectively study and measure humanistic phenomena.
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Strengths
It emphasizes the role of the individual. This school of psychology gives people more credit in controlling and determining their state of mental health.
It also takes environmental influences into account; it credits the environment's influence on our experiences.
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Goal
To empower individuals, enhance well-being, push people toward fulfilling their potential and improve communities all over the world.
What does it study?
How people are influenced by theirself-perceptions and the personal meanings attached to their experiences.
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Everyone deserves human respect regardless of external factors, such as race, ethnicity, wealth, appearance, or actions.
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Human meanings, understandings, and experiences involved in growing,teaching, and learning.
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Context
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Development
The Humanistic approach developed in the 1960's as a critical reaction to the technical emphases of both psychodynamic and behaviorist learning approaches to psychology.
1951: They agreed that topics such as self-actualization, creativity, individuality, and related topics were the central themes of this new approach.
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It began in 15th century in Europe as a protest against the closed-minded religious dogma of the church's scholars and philosophers.
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Study methods
Suggestopedia
The mind has great potential and can retain information by the power of suggestion. It uses relaxation as a means of retaining new knowledge. The scope is to supply an atmosphere of total relaxation where understanding is purely accidental.
The Silent Way
This method is based on a problem-solving approach to learning, whereby the students’ learning becomes autonomous and co-operative.
The goal is to help students select the appropriate phrases and know how to control them, with good intonation and rhythm.
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Human perspective
Humanistic psychology studies humans as organized wholes who are best understood within the context of their environment.
Humanistic psychologists believe that an individual's behavior is connected to his inner feelings and self-image.