CHAPTER 10 Maslow: Key Terms and Concepts

Question 1

Maslow assumed that _________ affects the whole person

Answer 1

motivation

Question 2

It is complete, often unconscious, continual, and applicable to all people.

Answer 2

motivation

Question 3

Four dimensions of needs people are motivated by

Answer 3

conative, aesthetic, cognitive, and neurotic

Question 4

willful striving

Answer 4

conative

Question 5

The need for order and beauty

Answer 5

aesthetic

Question 6

The need for curiosity and knowledge

Answer 6

cognitive

Question 7

An unproductive pattern of relating to other people

Answer 7

neurotic

Question 8

The conative needs can be arranged on a?

Answer 8

hierarchy

Question 9

One need must be __________ _________before the next need can become active.

Answer 9

relatively satisfied

Question 10

The five conative needs

Answer 10

physiological, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization

Question 11

Occasionally, needs on the hierarchy can be _________, and they are
frequently __________.

Answer 11

reversed ; unconscious

Occasionally, needs on the hierarchy can be reversed, and they are frequently unconscious.

Question 12

It is motivated and is directed toward the satisfaction of basic needs.

Answer 12

Coping behavior

Question 13

Has a cause but is not motivated; it is simply one’s way of expressing oneself.

Answer 13

Expressive behavior

Question 14

Conative needs, including self-actualization, are?

Answer 14

instinctoid

Question 15

The deprivation of conative needs leads to pathology.

Answer 15

instinctoid

Question 16

The frustration of self-actualization needs results in _____________ and a ________ of the B-values.

Answer 16

metapathology ; rejection

The frustration of self-actualization needs results in metapathology and a rejection of the B-values.

Question 17

The criterion that separates self-actualizing people from those who are merely healthy but mired at the level of esteem.

Answer 17

Acceptance of the B-values (truth, beauty, humor, etc.)

Question 18

The characteristics of self-actualizers

Answer 18

1. A more efficient perception of reality
2. Acceptance of self, others, and nature
3. Spontaneity, simplicity, and naturalness
4. A problem-centered approach to life
5. The need for privacy
6. Autonomy
7. Freshness of appreciation
8. Peak experiences
9. Social interest
10. Profound interpersonal relations
11. A democratic attitude
12. The ability to discriminate means from ends
13. A philosophical sense of humor
14. Creativeness
15. Resistance to enculturation

Question 19

Maslow argued for a _______ _______, one that is noninterfering, passive, receptive, and subjective.

Answer 19

Taoistic attitude

Question 20

A standardized test designed to measure self-actualizing values and behavior.

Answer 20

Personal Orientation Inventory (POI)

Question 21

The fear of being or doing one’s best.

Answer 21

Jonah complex

Question 22

____________ should be directed at the need level currently being thwarted, in most cases love and belongingness needs.

Answer 22

Psychotherapy