CHAPTER 10 Maslow: Key Terms and Concepts Flashcards
Maslow assumed that _________ affects the whole person
motivation
It is complete, often unconscious, continual, and applicable to all people.
motivation
Four dimensions of needs people are motivated by
conative, aesthetic, cognitive, and neurotic
willful striving
conative
The need for order and beauty
aesthetic
The need for curiosity and knowledge
cognitive
An unproductive pattern of relating to other people
neurotic
The conative needs can be arranged on a?
hierarchy
One need must be __________ _________before the next need can become active.
relatively satisfied
The five conative needs
physiological, safety, love and belongingness, esteem, and self-actualization
Occasionally, needs on the hierarchy can be _________, and they are
frequently __________.
reversed ; unconscious
Occasionally, needs on the hierarchy can be reversed, and they are frequently unconscious.
It is motivated and is directed toward the satisfaction of basic needs.
Coping behavior
Has a cause but is not motivated; it is simply one’s way of expressing oneself.
Expressive behavior
Conative needs, including self-actualization, are?
instinctoid
The deprivation of conative needs leads to pathology.
instinctoid
The frustration of self-actualization needs results in _____________ and a ________ of the B-values.
metapathology ; rejection
The frustration of self-actualization needs results in metapathology and a rejection of the B-values.
The criterion that separates self-actualizing people from those who are merely healthy but mired at the level of esteem.
Acceptance of the B-values (truth, beauty, humor, etc.)
The characteristics of self-actualizers
- A more efficient perception of reality
- Acceptance of self, others, and nature
- Spontaneity, simplicity, and naturalness
- A problem-centered approach to life
- The need for privacy
- Autonomy
- Freshness of appreciation
- Peak experiences
- Social interest
- Profound interpersonal relations
- A democratic attitude
- The ability to discriminate means from ends
- A philosophical sense of humor
- Creativeness
- Resistance to enculturation
Maslow argued for a _______ _______, one that is noninterfering, passive, receptive, and subjective.
Taoistic attitude
A standardized test designed to measure self-actualizing values and behavior.
Personal Orientation Inventory (POI)
The fear of being or doing one’s best.
Jonah complex
____________ should be directed at the need level currently being thwarted, in most cases love and belongingness needs.
Psychotherapy
