Abraham Maslow

Question 1

Self-actualization

Answer 1

The innate process by which one tends to grow spiritually and realize one’s potential.

Question 2

Teleology

Answer 2

The idea that there is a grand design or purpose to one’s life.

Question 3

Peak experience

Answer 3

According to Maslow, powerful/meaningful experiences in which people seem to transcend the self, be at one with the world, and feel completely self-fulfilled. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes them as the “flow” that comes with total involvement in an activity.

Question 4

Organismic

Answer 4

Term sometimes used to describe theories that focus on the development that comes from inside the growing organism and that assume a natural unfolding, or life course, for each organism.

Question 5

Deficiency Needs

Answer 5

According to Maslow, needs that are essential for survival including physiological,safety, belonging, love, and esteem needs.

Question 6

Personal Orientation Inventory (POI)

Answer 6

Self-report questionnaire that eases people to classify themselves on a number of dimensions for the various characteristics or self-actualization or mental health.

Question 7

American Paradox

Answer 7

The contemporary situation where we have material abundance co-occurring with social recession and psychological depression.