Humanistic And Existential Personality

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Humanistic and Existential Personality Holistic-Dynamic Theory Maslow was mostly interested in what motivated people who achieved the most out of life through positive thinking. He pointed out how humans are motivated in ways to achieve basic needs. However, what he explains as motivation in some things we do out of instinct not motivation. For example, when we are hungry we will find food to satisfy our hunger, and when the hunger comes back we have to satisfy it again. This is part of our instinct to survive, not a choice in bettering ourselves. Motivation is for the need of "wanting" rather than out of need. For example, when we are looking for a job, we focus on jobs that pay well enough to be able to meet our basic needs. However, when we find a job that offers really good benefits, we place our resume with the job that has the attractive benefit package. The motivation to take the second job is the benefits. As the person is deciding between the first two jobs, he or she might then find another job with higher pay and better benefits. Now we have two motives to push us to take the third job: the higher pay and the better benefit package (Feist & Feist, 2009). Person-Centered Theory Person-centered theory has two broad assumptions: formative tendency and actualizing tendency (Feist & Feist, 2009). Rogers realized there was quite a bit of emphasis on the deterioration of life, but not enough on the building process. Formative tendency refers to that building process, describing all matter as evolving from a simpler form to a more complex form. From a simplistic point of view, formative tendency describes the formation of a snowflake from unordered fluid into the mass of ice crystals that come together to form a snowflake. From a psychological point of view, the human mind starts out as unknowing and unconscious and evolves into complete awareness (Rogers,

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