Good Specimen
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Good Specimen
In Abrahm Maslow's Eupsychian Theory, the Good Specimen is an individual that is more fully developed than others, a "psychologically healthy...self-actualized" individual,[1] one that has more closely approximated Full Realization of its inherent Human Potential.
Concept Map
Key Terms
- Abraham Maslow
- Eupsychia Key Figures
- Eupsychian Biology
- Eupsychian Education
- Eupsychian Management
- Eupsychian Psychology
- Eupsychian Science
- Eupsychian Society
- Eupsychian Theory
- Eupsychian Therapist
- Eupsychian Therapy
- Euspychian Methods
- Humanistic Psychology
- Transpersonal Psychology
- Good Society
- Human Development
- Human Motivation
- Human Nature
- Human Pathology
- Human Potential
- Metamotivation
- Human Diminution
- Diminished Human Being
- Big Problem
- Good Specimen
- Individual Potential
- Species Potential
- Actual Realization
- Human Flourishing
- Potential Realization
- Fully Functioning Person
- Full Realization
Syncretic Terms
Related LP Terms
Good Specimen > Seven Essential Needs
Non-LP Related Terms
Notes
Maslow believes that if you want to understand Human Potential, what humans are actually capable of, you study Good Specimens.[2]
A Good Specimen is a healthy specimen (see Health for a definition).
Apparently it is now possible to say that the healthy organism itself gives clear and loud signals about what it, the organism, prefers or chooses, or consider to be a desirable state of affairs.[3]
Maslow suggests that organisms incline in the direction of making proper choices for themselves, that is, they incline towards self-regulation, self-government, self-choice. "The organism has more tendency toward choosing health, growth, biological success than we would have thought a century ago. This is in general anti-authoritarian, anticontrolling. For me it brings back into serious focus the whole Taoistic point of view. not only as expressed in contemporary ecological and ethological studies. where we have learned not to intrude
and to control. but for the human being it also means trusting more the child's own impulses toward growth and self-actualization." [4]
Quotes
If we want to answer the question how tall can the human species grow. then obviously it is well to pick out the ones who are already tallest and study them. If we want to know how fast a human being can run, then it is no use to average out the speed of a "good sample" of the population; it is far better to collect Olympic gold medal winners and see how well they can do. If we want to know the possibilities for spiritual growth. value growth. or moral development in human beings.[5]
Maslow Index
- Aggridant
- B-Cognition
- B-Needs
- B-Realm
- B-Values
- Being-Guilt
- Big Problem
- D-Cognition
- D-Realm
- Deficiency Diseases
- Diminished Human Being
- Eupsychia
- Eupsychian Biology
- Eupsychian Education
- Eupsychian Index
- Eupsychian Management
- Eupsychian Psychology
- Eupsychian Science
- Eupsychian Society
- Eupsychian Theory
- Eupsychian Therapist
- Eupsychian Therapy
- Euspychian Methods
- Good Chooser
- Good Person
- Good Science
- Good Society
- Good Specimen
- Growing-Tip Statistics
- Hierarchy of Basic Needs
- Hierarchy of Cognitive Needs
- Horticultural Model
- Human Diminution
- Human Motivation
- Human Potential
- Humanistic Psychology
- Inner Signals
- Intrinsic Conscience
- Jonah Complex
- Metamotivation
- Metapathology
- Motivation
- Normalcy
- Normative Biology
- Peak Experience
- Plateau Experience
- Real Self
- Sculptural Model
- Self-Actualization
- Self-Regulation
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Footnotes
- ↑ Maslow, A. H. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature New York: Viking, 1971. p. 5-6
- ↑ A. H. Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (Viking, 1971).p. 5-6.
- ↑ A. H. Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (Viking, 1971). p. 11.
- ↑ Maslow, A. H. The Farther Reaches of Human Nature New York: Viking, 1971. p. 13.
- ↑ A. H. Maslow, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature (Viking, 1971). p. 7.