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Key Assumptions of the Humanistic Perspective.
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Karina Swenson Psych IBH2 p.3 2/11/03 Key Assumptions of the Humanistic Perspective Humanism is an attempt to alter psychology to more person-oriented objectives. The humanistic perspective is interested in a person's everyday life behavior as it occurs in the natural environment, not in limited pieces of non-natural behavior as they occur in the laboratory. Humanism is both a world view as well as an applied psychology as it attempts to analyze, understand, and externalize not just the content of the perceptual consciousness, but the whole scope of consciousness; self-concepts, feelings, desires, goals, and beliefs. The humanistic perspective is made up of assumptions that provides basis to its approach to psychology, which is that human behavior must be analyzed and understood through subjective experiences of an individual, free will in humans, conscious awareness, uniqueness of individuals, and that behavior is not constrained by either past experience or current circumstances. Humanistic psychology believes that...
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