Question

what are similarities between humanistic and behaviorisim

Answer 1

Behaviorism is primarily concerned with the concepts of stimulus and response and conditioning. For example, whenever I sit down in my recliner, my dog gets excited and runs in a circle around it. That's because I often play fetch with him while sitting in the chair. So the stimulus is the chair, the response is him running in a circle. He has been "conditioned" to respond this way due to past events.

Humanism takes a different approach to understanding human behavior. It looks at motivations, desires, purpose, and other existential concepts to explain why we feel or act a certain way.

How are they similar? They both seek to explain why humans do things. They also both consider the mental processes that lead to behavioral outcomes. (Edit: that's sort of a stretch. It's more that they both acknowledge that prior experiences shape our expectations about our actions and that we act according to our prior experiences, behaviorism considering it to be a biological function and humanism considering it to be a form of learning)

They differ much more than they are similar since humanism is more focused on the cognitive experience and behaviorism often only looks at physical behaviors that can be observed.

One criticism is that behaviorism treats humans as if they were lab rats and as if their actions can be studied without considering their "mindset." This is why humanism is often considered to have developed as a reaction to behaviorism....plg*