Holistic-Dynamic Theory

Question 1

Assumes that the whole person is constantly being motivated by one need or another and that people have the potential to grow toward psychological health; prepotency

Answer 1

Holistic-Dynamic Theory

Question 2

We need to study psychological healthy people to understand human nature, not psychopathological ones

Answer 2

Maslow’s Approach

Question 3

Hierarchy of Needs

Answer 3

1. Physiological Needs
2. Safety Needs
3. Love and Belongingness Needs
   4, Esteem Needs

Question 4

If we understood the conscious motivation underlying the behavior; we would recognize that the needs are not reversed. For example, when an individual prioritizes esteem needs before love and belongingness.

Answer 4

Reverse Order of Needs

Question 5

Three Main Conditions for a person to be able to self-actualize.

Answer 5

1. No restraints imposed by others on what you can do
2. Little or no distraction from deficiency needs;
3. An ability to know yourself very well

Question 6

Other Needs in Holistic-Dynamic Theories

Answer 6

1. Aesthetic Needs
2. Cognitive Needs
3. Neurotic Needs

Question 7

Characteristic of needs; they have a striving or motivational character

Answer 7

Conative Needs

Question 8

Holistic-Dynamic Theory View of Motivation

Answer 8

1. Holistic approach to motivation
2. Motivation is usually complex
3. people are continually motivated by one need or another
4. all people everywhere are motivated by the same basic needs; and
5. needs can be arranged on a hierarchy

Question 9

Looked for common elements and identified self-actualizing qualities

Answer 9

Maslow’s Approach

Question 10

What we call “normal in psychology is really a _______________, so undramatic & so widely spread that we don’t even notice it ordinarily

Answer 10

Psychopathology of the average

Question 11

Only needs that can be completely satisfied or even overly satisfied

Answer 11

Physiological Needs

Question 12

Include some aspects of sex and human contact as well as the need to both give

Answer 12

Love and Belongingness

Question 13

Mutually felt and shared and are not motivated by a deficiency or incompleteness within the lover

Answer 13

B-Love

Question 14

Has two levels, reputation & self-esteem

Answer 14

Esteem Needs

Question 15

Deprivation of Self Actualization

Answer 15

Metapathology

Question 16

Deficiency of love or affection (attachment) based on the lover’s specific deficiency and the loved one’s ability to satisfy that deficit

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D-Love

Question 17

Self-actualizers are capable of what love?

Answer 17

B-Love

Question 18

Lack of satisfaction of any of the basic needs leads to some kind of pathology

Answer 18

Deprivation of Needs

Question 19

Is the need to help other people to achieve self-actualization

Answer 19

Transcendence

Question 20

It implies a condition in which motivation as we know it plays no role. Self-actualizing persons are not motivated to strive for a particular goal. Instead, they are said to be developing from within. Maslow, described the motivation of the people who are not self-actualizers as a condition of D-motivation or Deficiency.

Answer 20

Metamotivation

Question 21

It involves striving for something specific to make up for something that is lacking within us.

Answer 21

D-motivation

Question 22

Are not universal, but at least some people in every culture seem to be motivated by the need for beauty and aesthetically pleasing experiences.

Answer 22

Aesthetic Needs