holistic
(adjective)
Relating to the whole instead of a separation into parts.
Examples of holistic in the following topics:
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Evaluating the Humanistic Perspective on Personality
- The humanistic perspective of personality theory is a holistic psychological perspective that attributes human characteristics and actions to free will and an innate drive for self-actualization .
- Humanistic psychology is holistic in nature: it takes whole persons into account rather than their separate traits or processes.
- The holistic approach allows for much variation but does not identify enough constant variables in order to be researched with true accuracy.
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Humanistic Psychology
- Humanistic psychology adopts a holistic view of human existence through explorations of meaning, human potential, and self-actualization.
- It adopts a holistic approach to human existence through investigations of concepts such as meaning, values, freedom, tragedy, personal responsibility, human potential, spirituality, and self-actualization.
- The humanistic perspective is a holistic psychological perspective that attributes human characteristics and actions to free will and an innate drive for self-actualization.
- Humanistic psychology is holistic in nature: it takes whole persons into account rather than their separate traits or processes.
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Social Cognition
- For example, a number of studies have found that people who grow up in East Asian cultures such as China and Japan tend to develop holistic thinking styles, whereas people brought up in Western cultures like Australia and the USA tend to develop analytic thinking styles.
- The typically Eastern holistic thinking style is a type of thinking in which people focus on the overall context and the ways in which objects relate to each other.
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Humanistic Therapy
- It adopts a holistic approach to human existence and pays special attention to such phenomena as creativity, free will, and human potential.
- The holistic approach allows for much variation but does not identify enough constant variables to be researched with true accuracy.
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Neo-Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality
- Instead of taking a strictly biological approach to the development of personality (as Freud did in his focus on individual evolutionary drives), they focused more holistically on how the social environment and culture influence personality development.
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Body-Oriented Psychotherapies
- Body-oriented therapies, also referred to as body psychotherapies, are based on the principles of somatic psychology, which involves the study of the body, somatic experience, and the embodied self, including therapeutic and holistic approaches to the body.
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Maslow's Humanistic Theory of Personality
- Because of the subjective nature of the study, the holistic approach allows for a great deal of variation but does not identify enough constant variables in order to be researched with true accuracy.
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Positive Psychology
- These fields of psychology advocate the belief that all people are inherently good, and adopt a holistic approach to human existence.
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Rogers' Humanistic Theory of Personality
- The holistic approach of humanism allows for a great deal of variation but does not identify enough constant variables to be researched with true accuracy.