Chapter 9 TF Flashcards
Like Harry Stack Sullivan, Maslow was the most popular person in his high school class.
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As a child, Maslow was emotionally closer to his mother than to his father.
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Maslow assumed that people in different cultures have basically different needs.
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People who have never experienced love are most strongly motivated by love and belongingness needs.
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People who have been partially loved are most strongly motivated by love and belongingness needs
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When people have their esteem needs met, they automatically cross the threshold to self-actualization.
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All people have a more or less equal desire to satisfy aesthetic needs.
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A person can satisfy only one need at a time.
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Maslow believed that people are continually conscious of their motives.
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Needs on the hierarchy can occasionally be reversed, according to Maslow.
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Self-actualizing people strive hard to maintain their self-actualization status.
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Self-actualizing people would most likely agree with the saying “knowledge for the sake of knowledge.”
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According to Maslow, all behavior is motivated.
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Expressive behavior is often unmotivated.
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One sure sign of self-actualization is having a peak experience.
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By faking self-actualization, some people actually become self-actualizing.
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Maslow believed that all people have the potential for self-actualization, but most people never achieve it.
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Most self-actualizing people do not have their esteem needs met.
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A person who has never had love and belongingness needs satisfied could nevertheless become self-actualizing by satisfying safety needs.
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Maslow’s theory rates low on its ability to organize knowledge.
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