Abraham Maslow Flashcards
Humanistic Approach
Emphasis on:
Human strength and aspirations
Conscious free will
Fulfillment of our potential
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
True
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
False
does not derive from case histories of clinical patients
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
False
Each persom is born with the same instinctive needs
Each person is born with the same instinctive need that enable us to ____
Grow, develop, abd fulfill our potentials
What is the arrangement of innate needs
Strongest to weakest from the bottom
It activate and direct human behavior
Hierarchy of five innate needs
What are the five hierarchy of needs
Physiological
Safety
Belongingness and love
Esteem
Self actualization
Maslow described these needs as __
Instinctoid
True or false
The behaviors we use to satisfy them are learned, and therefore, subject to variation from one person to another
True
True or false
Higher needs must be at least partially satisfied before lower needs become influential
False
Lower needs must be partially satisfied before higher needs become influential
True or False
We are driven by all the needs at the same time
False
We are not driven by all the needs at the same time
True or false
Only two needs will dominate our personality at any one point in time
False
Only one
True or false
The order of the needs cannot be changed
False
Can be changed
True or false
The higher the need is in the hierarchy, the greater is its strength, potency, and priority
False
The lower the need
True or false
Lower needs appear later in life
False
Higher needs
Physiological and safety needs arise in ___
Infancy
True or false
Belongingness and esteem needs does not arise until midlife
False
Arise in adolescence
True or false
Self actualization does not arise until midlife
True
True or false
Higher needs are less necessary for actual survival, their gratification can be postponed
True
True of false
Failure to satisfy a higher need produce a crisis
False
Does not produce a crisis
True or false
Failure to satisfy a lower need does not produced a crisis
False
Produce a crisis
Maslow called lower needs ___; failure to satisfy them produces a deficit or lack in the individual
Deficit or deficiency needs
Maslw called higher needs ___
Growth or being needs
True or false
A need have to be satisfied fully before the next need in the hierarchy become important
False
Does not have to be satisfied fully
It have a greater personal impact as motivating forces in cultures where basic survival remains as everyday concern.
Physiological needs
Maslow believed that the needs for __ are important drives for infants and neurotic adults
Safety and security
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
Belongingness and love
True or false
Maslow suggestee that the failure to satisfy the need for love is a fundamental cause of emotional maladjustment
True
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
Self-esteem
Desire to become the most that one can be
Self-actualization
True or false
If the person is not self-actualizing, he or she will be restless, frustated and discontent
True
True or false
Maslow believed that everyone is capable of maximizing personal abilities and reaching the fullest personality development
True
To know and to understand; finding in our environment
Cognitive needs
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
True
Involves maximizing personal potential rather than striving for a particular goal object
Metamotivation/B-motivation/Being
Involves striving for something specific make up for something that is lacking within us
D-motivation or deficiency
fulfilling their potential and with knowing and understanding their
environment
Self actualizing persons
States of growth or being toward which self actualizers evolve
Metaneeds
A thwarting of self development related to failure to satisfy the metaneeds
Metapathology
Our doubts about our own abilities
Jonah complex
A self report questionnaire consisting of 150 pairs of statements to measure self actualization
Personal Orientation Inventory (POI)
They feel free to resist social and cultural pressures to think or behave in a certain way
Resistance to enculturation
They are flexible, spontaneous, and willing to make mistakes and learn from them
Creativeness
Indicate the sympathy and empathy self actualizing persons have for all humanity
Social interest
