Abraham MaslowHolistic-Dynamic Theory

Pertemuan 18

Matakuliah : L0194 – Psikologi KepribadianTahun : 2010

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Who is Abraham Harold Maslow?

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Average student High grades

Intellectually superior student get flunk out from school

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(1970) Holistic Approach to Motivation

• Motivation is ussualy complex

– Behavior spring from several separate motives

– Motivation maybe unconscious or unknown to the person

• People are continually motivates by one needs or

another

• People everywhere are motivates by the same

basic needs can be arrange on hierarchy

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Heirarchy of Needs

Metapathology:Absent of value, lack of fulfillment,Loss meaning in life

Self doubt, self-depreciation,Lack of confidence

Defensive, overly aggresisive, Socially timid

Irrational fear, insecutiry, dread,basic anxiety

Malnutrition, fatigue, loss of energy,Obsession of sex, etc.

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In addition to these 5 conative needs are:

1. Aesthetic

2. Cognitive

3. Neurotic

Deprivation same sickness as conative needs

Deprivation results in pathology

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Reversed order of Needs

Chief crazy horse monument sculptured by Korczak Ziolkowski

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Unmotivated BehaviorExpressive Behavior

The person’s mode of expressionNo need rewardUnlearned, spontaneous, force within person rather than

environment

VersusCoping Behavior

Conscious, learned, determined by external environmentServes some aims or goalsMotivated by some deficit needs

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Criteria for Self Actualization

• Free from psychopathology

• Had progressed through the hierarchy of needs

• Embracing of the B-Values

• Full use and exploitation of talents, capacities,

potentialities

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B-Values

• Metamotivation motives of self actualizing people

• Deprivation of any B-Values Metapathology (the lack of a meaningful philosophy of life)

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Characteristic of self actualizing people:• More efficient perception of reality

• Acceptance of self, others, & naturalness

• Problem-centering

• Need for privacy

• Autonomy

• Continued freshness of appreciation

• The peak experience

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Characteristic of self actualizing people: (cont…)• Kinship with other human beings

• Profound interpersonal relations

• The democratic character structure

• Enjoy doing something for its own sake

• Philosophical sense of humor

• Creativeness

• Resistence to enculturation

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Jonah Complex

Takut akan kesuksesan yang diimpikan karena

akan bandingkan dengan yang dirasa lebh hebat

Psychotherapy

Break their dependency on others

Warm & healthy relationship with therapist

Fulfill love & belongingness confident