Humanistic Approach

strength - anti reductionist

• reject attempts to reduce behaviour into smaller parts

• advocate hollism

• see behabious as based on subjectiv eexperiences only understood by condering the person as a whole

  • increasing validity as it considers meaningful huamn behaviour in real-world contexts

strength - postitive impacts

• humanistic psychoolgists have been praised for promoting positive image of human behaviour

• seeing people in control of their lives and having the freedm to change

• which is ignores in other apprach e.g. biological

  • therefore offers refreshing and optimistic alterntive

limitation - culutrally bias

• some of the ideas proposed in this approach only apply to individualistic cultures, for example, america

• Self-actualisation cannot be applied to collectivist cultural like india as they focus on likking at the group instead.

• therefore huamisitic psychology does not apply universally to everyone

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