Abraham Maslow

Question 1

Humanistic Approach
Emphasis on:

Answer 1

Human strength and aspirations
Conscious free will
Fulfillment of our potential

Question 2

True of False
According to Maslow, when psychologists study only abnormal, emotionally disturbed examples of humanity, they ignore positive human qualities such as happiness, contentment, and peace of mind

Answer 2

True

Question 3

True of False
Maslow’s personality theory does not derive from research on creative, independent, self sufficient, fulfilled adults but from case histories of clinical patients

Answer 3

False
does not derive from case histories of clinical patients

Question 4

True or False
He concluded that each person is not born with the same instinctive needs that enable us to grow, develop, and fulfill our potentials

Answer 4

False
Each persom is born with the same instinctive needs

Question 5

Each person is born with the same instinctive need that enable us to ____

Answer 5

Grow, develop, abd fulfill our potentials

Question 6

What is the arrangement of innate needs

Answer 6

Strongest to weakest from the bottom

Question 7

It activate and direct human behavior

Answer 7

Hierarchy of five innate needs

Question 8

What are the five hierarchy of needs

Answer 8

Physiological
Safety
Belongingness and love
Esteem
Self actualization

Question 9

Maslow described these needs as __

Answer 9

Instinctoid

Question 10

True or false
The behaviors we use to satisfy them are learned, and therefore, subject to variation from one person to another

Answer 10

True

Question 11

True or false
Higher needs must be at least partially satisfied before lower needs become influential

Answer 11

False
Lower needs must be partially satisfied before higher needs become influential

Question 12

True or False
We are driven by all the needs at the same time

Answer 12

False
We are not driven by all the needs at the same time

Question 13

True or false
Only two needs will dominate our personality at any one point in time

Answer 13

False
Only one

Question 14

True or false
The order of the needs cannot be changed

Answer 14

False
Can be changed

Question 15

True or false
The higher the need is in the hierarchy, the greater is its strength, potency, and priority

Answer 15

False
The lower the need

Question 16

True or false
Lower needs appear later in life

Answer 16

False
Higher needs

Question 17

Physiological and safety needs arise in ___

Answer 17

Infancy

Question 18

True or false
Belongingness and esteem needs does not arise until midlife

Answer 18

False
Arise in adolescence

Question 19

True or false
Self actualization does not arise until midlife

Answer 19

True

Question 20

True or false
Higher needs are less necessary for actual survival, their gratification can be postponed

Answer 20

True

Question 21

True of false
Failure to satisfy a higher need produce a crisis

Answer 21

False
Does not produce a crisis

Question 22

True or false
Failure to satisfy a lower need does not produced a crisis

Answer 22

False
Produce a crisis

Question 23

Maslow called lower needs ___; failure to satisfy them produces a deficit or lack in the individual

Answer 23

Deficit or deficiency needs

Question 24

Maslw called higher needs ___

Answer 24

Growth or being needs

Question 25

True or false A need have to be satisfied fully before the next need in the hierarchy become important

Answer 25

False Does not have to be satisfied fully

Question 26

It have a greater personal impact as motivating forces in cultures where basic survival remains as everyday concern.

Answer 26

Physiological needs

Question 27

Maslow believed that the needs for __ are important drives for infants and neurotic adults

Answer 27

Safety and security

Question 28

These needs can be expressed through a close relationship with a friend, lover, or mate, or tgrough the various forms of social media that allow us to keep in touch with others at a moment's notice anywhere and anytime

Answer 28

Belongingness and love

Question 29

True or false Maslow suggestee that the failure to satisfy the need for love is a fundamental cause of emotional maladjustment

Answer 29

True

Question 30

Satisfaction of the need for ___ allows us to feel confident of our strength, worth, and adequacy, which will help us become more competent and productive in all aspects of our life

Answer 30

Self-esteem

Question 31

Desire to become the most that one can be

Answer 31

Self-actualization

Question 32

True or false If the person is not self-actualizing, he or she will be restless, frustated and discontent

Answer 32

True

Question 33

True or false Maslow believed that everyone is capable of maximizing personal abilities and reaching the fullest personality development

Answer 33

True

Question 34

To know and to understand; finding in our environment

Answer 34

Cognitive needs

Question 35

True or false The need to know is stronger than the need to understand, and must tgerefore be at least partially satisfied before the need to understand can emerge

Answer 35

True

Question 36

Involves maximizing personal potential rather than striving for a particular goal object

Answer 36

Metamotivation/B-motivation/Being

Question 37

Involves striving for something specific make up for something that is lacking within us

Answer 37

D-motivation or deficiency

Question 38

fulfilling their potential and with knowing and understanding their environment

Answer 38

Self actualizing persons

Question 39

States of growth or being toward which self actualizers evolve

Answer 39

Metaneeds

Question 40

A thwarting of self development related to failure to satisfy the metaneeds

Answer 40

Metapathology

Question 41

Our doubts about our own abilities

Answer 41

Jonah complex

Question 42

A self report questionnaire consisting of 150 pairs of statements to measure self actualization

Answer 42

Personal Orientation Inventory (POI)

Question 43

They feel free to resist social and cultural pressures to think or behave in a certain way

Answer 43

Resistance to enculturation

Question 44

They are flexible, spontaneous, and willing to make mistakes and learn from them

Answer 44

Creativeness

Question 45

Indicate the sympathy and empathy self actualizing persons have for all humanity

Answer 45

Social interest