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Humanistic and Social Interactionism Theories

Humanism and social interactionism are two schools of thought in psychology. [1] Humanism emphasizes understanding an individual's inner thoughts, feelings, and emotions to aid in their development, focusing on aspects like Erik Erikson's stages of development and Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs. [2] Social interactionism posits that learning occurs through interactions with other people, as seen in Lev Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and Reuven Feuerstein's theory of cognitive development through life experiences. Interaction allows for two-way knowledge transfer between individuals rather than one-way transmission of information.

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Humanistic and Social Interactionism Theories

Humanism and social interactionism are two schools of thought in psychology. [1] Humanism emphasizes understanding an individual's inner thoughts, feelings, and emotions to aid in their development, focusing on aspects like Erik Erikson's stages of development and Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs. [2] Social interactionism posits that learning occurs through interactions with other people, as seen in Lev Vygotsky's zone of proximal development and Reuven Feuerstein's theory of cognitive development through life experiences. Interaction allows for two-way knowledge transfer between individuals rather than one-way transmission of information.

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Further schools of thought in psychology: humanism and social interactionism

No Theory Keypoint Notes

1. Humanistic Humanism emphasizes the inner world of the learners’ thoughts, feelings, and Based on implications of
Approach emotions in order to lead in human development. It focusses onto all aspects humanist approach, every
of individual intelligent. learning experience should be
seen within the context of
-Erik Erikson’s Erik Erikson stated that early infancy, age two or three, age four, early school helping learners to develop a
Theory years, adolescence, young adult, middle age, and old age have their own stage sense of personal identity and
that shows the emotional growth. relating that to realistic future
goals. Learners also should be
-Abraham Abraham Maslow introduced the hierarchy of needs, in which the basic need helped and encouraged to make
Maslows Theory must be fulfilled before we move to next need, start from basic physiological choices for themselves. It also
needs to self actualisation. The other theory that introduced by him is the important for teachers to
teacher’s [Link], Frank and Levi have their own perception toward empathise with their learners by
Maslows pyramid. They stated that all the needs are important connecting getting to know them as
each other and these components are dynamic. individuals.

-Carls Roger’s Carl Rogers is often seen as the founder of counseling psychology. Carl’s
Theory theory shows that each learner has potential for learning when they involves
active participation on learning activities.

Social People have learnt since they were born. The learning occurs through Piaget theory shows that
2
Interactionism interaction with other people. children have ability to learn and
explore their environment. Same
- Lev Vygotsky According to Vygotsky theory, learning began from transferring into theories has their own believe
developing. Mediation also included into the part of learning. Interaction that adults shape the children
means there is not only knowledge transferring or one way, but also two behaviour. So, the social
ways. Zone of Proximal Development also be introduced in this theory. ZPD interactionist believes that
is the zone that be able to be maximized by the learners through teacher’s interaction is the key of children
guidance. learning.

- Reuven The next theory is Reuven Feuersteins’s theory which shows that people are
Feurstein able to improve their cognitive ability through their live. Social constructivist
model of teaching-learning process in which four key elements, the learner,
the teacher, the task, and the context interact with and affect each other. We
shall pull the four elements together to form general propositions about the
whole process of teaching a language.

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