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  • Approaches to Psychology

Click the link below to listen to the podcast and then answer the questions:

Why people-pleasers fail

  • Outline the stages of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

  • Explain the term ‘conditions of worth’

  • Referring to the article, discuss how conditions of worth and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs might explain elements of people-pleasing

  • Could psychodynamic approaches explain people-pleasing? To what extent

  • Which approach provides the more convincing explanation?

Danny Galbraith, St Bartholomew’s School

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