Question

1. a) Why was humanistic psychology called the 'third force' of Psychology?  

b) How did the concept of self-actualization evolve with humanistic psychology?

c) Why are Bühler, Kohlberg, Erikson, and Gilligan's approaches to development regarded as part of humanistic psychology (what makes them 'humanistic')?

d) As a student, how do you relate to Carol Dweck's explanation of how students respond to failure?

Please answer this question by your thinking rather than copying the whole from the material you already post. Thus, make the answer by your own knowledge if you have a faculty of psychology to answer this question by their own thinking.

Answer 1

ANS-1 a) The humanistic approach is called the third force of psychology because it stresses on the whole individual and concept of stress like free will, self-actualization, self-efficiency. Humanistic psychology does not focus or concentrate on dysfunction. It helps people in fulfilling their abilities and also help them in maximizing their well-being. As there are three founders of the humanistic approach and they are Abraham Maslow, Clark Moustakas, and Carl Rogers but Abraham Maslow was the father of humanistic psychology. Some of the key features of the humanistic approach are therapies that are client-centered, free will, hierarchical needs, self-concept, etc.