Abraham Maslow 19081970

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Abraham Maslow (1908-1970)

• Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been
  thought to be
• third force father of humanistic psychology

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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

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B-values

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

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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

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Features of flow

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

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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