Character Orientations

Question 1

is, a person’s relatively permanent way of relating to people and things.

Answer 1

character orientation

Question 2

defined as
“the relatively permanent system of all noninstinctual strivings through which man relates himself to the human and natural world”

Answer 2

character,

Question 3

one of the ways people relate to the world:
acquiring and using things

Answer 3

assimilation

Question 3

one of the ways people relate to the world: relating to self and others

Answer 3

(socialization)

Question 3

People can acquire things through any one of four nonproductive orientations:

Answer 3

(1) receiving things passively; (2) exploiting, or taking things through force; (3) hoarding objects; and (4) marketing or exchanging things.

Question 3

they feel that the source of all good lies outside themselves and that
the only way they can relate to the world is to receive things, including love, knowledge, and material possessions.

Answer 3

Receptive characters

Question 3

believe that the source of all good is outside themselves.

Answer 3

exploitative characters

Question 4

Rather than valuing things outside themselves, ______ characters seek to save
that which they have already obtained.

They hold everything inside and do not let
go of anything.

Answer 4

hoarding

Question 4

marketing character is an outgrowth of modern commerce in which trade is no
longer personal but carried out by large, faceless corporations

Answer 4

marketing character

Question 4

This has three dimensions—working, loving, and reasoning. Because productive people work toward positive freedom and a continuing
realization of their potential, they are the most healthy of all character types

Answer 4

Productive Orientation