personality 3

Flashcards covering key vocabulary terms related to humanistic theories from the lecture notes.

Phenomenology

The study of conscious experience as it exists for the person without any attempt to reduce, divide, or compartmentalize it in any way.

Existential Anxiety

The anxiety that arises when one perceives that life has no meaning or purpose.

Actualizing Tendency

The built-in motivation of any organism to develop its potentials to the fullest extent possible.

Organismic Valuing Process

A subconscious guide that attracts people to growth-producing experiences and away from growth-inhibiting experiences.

Positive Regard

The need for all humans to experience love, affection, attention, and nurturance.

Positive Self Regard

Feeling good about oneself, including self-esteem, self-worth, and a positive self-image.

Unconditional Positive Regard

The love and acceptance from parents, regardless of the child's behavior.

Incongruence (Neurosis)

A state of disconnect between our real self and our ideal self, leading to mental illness.

Openness to Experience

Being receptive to the objective and subjective happenings of life, having expanded consciousness, and being able to tolerate ambiguity.

Existential Living

Living fully in each moment, also known as mindfulness.

Flow

A state of complete absorption in an activity that is challenging and requires skill, leading to a loss of self-consciousness and a sense of time.

Organismic Trusting

Allowing oneself to be guided by the organismic valuing process.

Experiential Freedom

The feeling of freedom that comes from having choices.

Creativity

Not just creative expression, but also adapting to new situations.

Physiological Needs

The needs for food, water, air, and other basic necessities that must be met before other needs can be addressed.

Safety and Security Needs

The needs for resources, family health, and a place to live.

Love and Belonging Needs

The need for affiliation, friends, supportive family, group identification, and intimate relationships.

Esteem Needs

The needs to be held in high regard by others and by oneself, stemming from mastery, achievement, and competence.

Self-Actualization

The state of becoming the very best person that one can be.

Self-Determination Theory

A modern humanistic theory that proposes three universal needs: autonomy, relatedness, and competence.

Autonomy

One of the three universal needs in self-determination theory; the sense that we are in control and making our own choices.

Relatedness

One of the three universal needs in self-determination theory; the need for connection and love from others.

Competence

One of the three universal needs in self-determination theory; the need to feel good at something.