Chapter 10 - Maslow Flashcards
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What are conative needs?
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Those needs with striving or motivational character
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What are Maslow’s assumptions about motivation?
A
- holistic approach
- usually complex
- continually motivated by one need or another
- everyone everywhere motivated by same basic needs
- needs can be arranged on hierarchy
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What is Maslow’s hierarchy of needs?
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- Physiological
- Safety
- Love and belongingness
- Esteem
- Self-actualization
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What are physiological needs?
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- food
- water
- oxygen
- body temperature
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What are safety needs?
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- physical security
- stability
- dependency
- protection
- freedom from threatening forces (eg war, terrorism, illness, anxiety, danger)
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What are love and belongingness needs?
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- friendship
- mate and children
- belonging to family, club, neighborhood, or nation
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What are esteem needs?
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- self-respect
- confidence
- competence
- esteem of others
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What are self-actualization needs?
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- self-fulfillment
- realization of potential
- creativity in full sense of the word
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What are the three types of people in terms of love and belongingness needs?
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- secure: adequately met in formative years
- distant: never experienced in early years
- insecure: inconsistent experience in younger years
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What other needs did Maslow identify in addition to the conative needs?
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- aesthetic: need for beauty
- cognitive: need for knowledge
- neurotic: those that lead to stagnation and pathology
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What is metapathology?
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The absence of values, lack of fulfillment, and loss of meaning in life
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What are the higher and lower level needs?
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- higher: love, esteem, self-actualization
- lower: physiological, safety
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What were Maslow’s criteria for self-actualization?
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- free from psychopathology
- progressed through hierarchy of needs
- embracing of B-values
- fulfill needs to grow, develop, & meet potentials
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What are B-values?
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- “metaneeds”
- truth, goodness, beauty, wholeness/transcendence of dichotomies, aliveness/spontaneity, uniqueness, perfection, completion, justice & order, simplicity, richness/totality, effortlessness, playfulness/humor, and self-sufficiency/autonomy
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What are the characteristics of self-actualizing people?
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- acceptance of self, others, & nature
- spontaneity, simplicity, & naturalness
- problem-centering
- need for privacy
- autonomy
- continued freshness of appreciation
- peak experiences
- profound interpersonal relations
- democratic character structure
- discrimination between means/ends
- philosophical sense of humor
- creativeness
- resistance to enculturation
