Focus on the individual

• Humanistic psych focuses on the person as a whole
• Humanistic psych believe all people are inherently good and that they're driven to achieve full potential
• Humanistic psych accounts for feelings rather than observable behaviour --> everyone is unique
• Idiographic approach rather than nomothetic approach focusing studying individuals not rules
• Humanistic psych assumes people's behaviour is caused by subjective feelings and their thoughts about themselves especially how they become better people
• Humanistic psych disagrees with deterministic ideas of other approaches