After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

• Identify the main principles and historical contexts of humanistic psychology
   
• Discuss the four assumptions of existentialism and May’s findings about fear
   
• Discuss Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
   
• Explain what it means to be autotelic
   
• Discuss Rogers’s person-centered approach and the principles of positive psychology
   
• Identify the accomplishments and shortcomings of the humanistic tradition
   
• Identify ways to apply the key principles of the humanistic tradition to individual experience and behavior