Humanistic Psychology

Humanist Psychologist

- concerned with how learners can develop their human potential.

Gestalt Psychology

- learning can be explained in terms of the wholeness of the problem and where the environment is changing and the learner is continuously reorganizing his/her perceptions.

Abraham Maslow• He observed that humans

are constantly striving to control their behavior and seeking to gratify themselves.

Carl Rogers

- was a psychotherapist who believed that the client was the most important person.

The therapist was not to tell the client what to do but rather the client should learn how to control his or her own behavior.

Curriculum

- concerned with the process not the products; personal needs not subject

matter; psychological meaning and environmental situations.

• Psychology has great influence in the curriculum.

• Learners are not machines and the mind is not computer. • Humans are

biological beings affected by their biology and their cultures.