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Title: Abraham Maslow 19081970


1
Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)
  • Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been
    thought to be
  • third force father of humanistic psychology

2
Maslows hierarchy of needs
  • D-needs deficiency needs (have an absence of
    something)
  • B-values being level (must have all other
    levels satisfied) self-actualization

3
B-values
  • Justice
  • honesty
  • Wholeness
  • Beauty
  • Goodness
  • Examples of self-actualizers according to Maslow
    Eleanor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Albert
    Einstein

4
Peak experiences
  • A period of transcending self and being connected
    with the world
  • Similar to the idea of flow (the zone for
    athletes) complete involvement in an activity
    with focused concentration
  • Mikhal Csikszentmihalyi (chick sent me high ee
  • Common to people who are self-actualizing

5
Features of flow
  • Focused attention
  • Merging of action and awareness
  • Lack of self-consciousness
  • Clear goals
  • Immediate feedback
  • Sense of control
  • Transformation of time

6
Evaluation
  • Recognizes uniqueness and subjective experience
  • Optimistic view of people
  • Lack of precision difficulty hypothesis testing
  • Optimism arbitrary?
  • Link clinical work, theory, and research
  • Focus on self
  • Focus on healthy rather than unhealthy behavior
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