Describe the strengths and criticisms of the humanistic approach to the study of personality.
What will be an ideal response?
Strengths:- an emphasis on immediate experience and uniqueness- its contribution to the client-centered model of psychotherapy as well as inspiring other approaches to clinical therapy- it served as a precursor for a number of different ways of thinking in psychology, including terror management theory and positive psychology- it is a more positive and optimistic approach, as compared to other models that have been criticized for being either too negative or too deterministicCriticisms:- it may be too naïve and unrealistic, failing to recognize the negative aspects of humanity- it does not give adequate attention to such factors as genetics, learning, situations, and unconscious motives- its main tenets may be overly simplistic and impossible to validate using empirical methods
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________ . A) glaucoma B) floaters C) cataracts D) presbyopia
Many theorists believe that behaviorism and social learning theory
A) overemphasize the plasticity of cognitive development. B) overestimate people's contributions to their own development. C) offer too narrow a view of important environmental influences. D) overemphasize each individual's unique life history.
The concept of childhood as a special period did not exist until the ________ century
a) sixteenth b) seventeenth c) nineteenth d) twentieth
Observational techniques are limited to nonexperimental studies.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)