Biological And Humanistic Paper
Analyzing biological and humanistic
Billy Ocean
Week 3
PSY/250
Dr. James
University of phoenix
AGUC0909A
Many people have different theories when approaching personality, some think its biological and others think it’s humanistic. In this essay I will be describing the biological approach to personality and the factors that influence the formation of personality. I will also be discussing Maslow hierarchy of needs and examine the relationship of biological factors and Maslow theory of personality. This essay will also include the basic aspect of humanistic theory that is incompatible with biological explanations theory. There are many biological approaches to personality; in 1953 James D. Watson and Francis Crick discovered …show more content…
Maslow divided organismic needs into two categories. Maslow identified several categories of deficiency needs, which stands for survival. The physiological needs are the basic biological necessities such as food, water, sex and shelter. The safety needs, which is the necessity of a predictable world, one that makes sense. Belongings and loves involve intimate relation with other people. Esteem is the need which involves respect for oneself and for others. All of the d-needs motivates people through deficits, which we need something to fill our void or …show more content…
Maslow also argued that people cannot reach the being level (B-level, with B- values or B-motives) if they are busy trying to satisfy their more basic needs. We cannot fulfill our complete human potential and search for beauty and truth if we lack food, safety, love, and esteem. Maslow arranged all these needs into a hierarchy as in psychoanalytic theory a biologically drive that are shared with animals, but the higher uniquely human needs, which are seen as a biologically based but transcendent. The relationship between biological factors and Abraham Maslow theory is that they both believed that human beings evolved from primates in processes. Biological factors and Abraham Maslow both agreed that sex was a big part of human personality. Another relationship that they have is that they tell if a person is going to change or keep the same personality. Biological factors believed that if your parents have it you would get it passed down to you as you get older. Humanistic believed free will is essential to being human and biological factors believe that behavior is determined by biological
Billy Ocean
Week 3
PSY/250
Dr. James
University of phoenix
AGUC0909A
Many people have different theories when approaching personality, some think its biological and others think it’s humanistic. In this essay I will be describing the biological approach to personality and the factors that influence the formation of personality. I will also be discussing Maslow hierarchy of needs and examine the relationship of biological factors and Maslow theory of personality. This essay will also include the basic aspect of humanistic theory that is incompatible with biological explanations theory. There are many biological approaches to personality; in 1953 James D. Watson and Francis Crick discovered …show more content…
Maslow divided organismic needs into two categories. Maslow identified several categories of deficiency needs, which stands for survival. The physiological needs are the basic biological necessities such as food, water, sex and shelter. The safety needs, which is the necessity of a predictable world, one that makes sense. Belongings and loves involve intimate relation with other people. Esteem is the need which involves respect for oneself and for others. All of the d-needs motivates people through deficits, which we need something to fill our void or …show more content…
Maslow also argued that people cannot reach the being level (B-level, with B- values or B-motives) if they are busy trying to satisfy their more basic needs. We cannot fulfill our complete human potential and search for beauty and truth if we lack food, safety, love, and esteem. Maslow arranged all these needs into a hierarchy as in psychoanalytic theory a biologically drive that are shared with animals, but the higher uniquely human needs, which are seen as a biologically based but transcendent. The relationship between biological factors and Abraham Maslow theory is that they both believed that human beings evolved from primates in processes. Biological factors and Abraham Maslow both agreed that sex was a big part of human personality. Another relationship that they have is that they tell if a person is going to change or keep the same personality. Biological factors believed that if your parents have it you would get it passed down to you as you get older. Humanistic believed free will is essential to being human and biological factors believe that behavior is determined by biological