Holistic-Dynamic Theory: Abraham Maslow

Question 1

Later, this young man took an IQ test on which he scored 195, a score so high that it can be achieved by only about one person in several million.

Answer 1

Abraham Maslow

Question 2

The personality theory of Abraham Maslow has variously been called humanistic theory, transpersonal theory, the third force in psychology, the fourth force in personality, needs theory, and self-actualization theory.

Answer 2

Holistic-Dynamic Theory

Question 3

The third force in Psychology

Answer 3

The theories of Maslow, Gordon Allport, Carl Rogers, Rollo May.

Question 4

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs concept assumes that lower level needs must be _____ or at least relatively _____ before higher level needs become activated.

Answer 4

satisfied

Question 5

The five needs composing this hierarchy are _____ needs, meaning that they have a striving or motivational character

Answer 5

conative

Question 6

Safety needs differ from physiological needs in that they cannot be _____.

Answer 6

overly satisfied — people can never be completely protected from meteorites, fires, floods, or the dangerous acts of others.

Question 7

Maslow identified two levels of esteem needs—_____.

Answer 7

reputation and self-esteem

Question 8

Why some people step over the threshold from esteem to self-actualization and others do not is a matter of whether or not they embrace the _____.

Answer 8

B-values

Question 9

Self-actualization needs include _____, the realization of all one’s potential, and a desire to become creative in the full sense of the word.

Answer 9

self-fulfillment

Question 10

When _____ needs are blocked, all needs on Maslow’s hierarchy are threatened; that is, knowledge is necessary to satisfy each of the five conative needs.

Answer 10

cognitive

Question 11

Maslow hypothesizes that some human needs are innately determined even though they can be modified by learning. He called these needs _____.

Answer 11

Instinctoid Nature of Needs

Question 12

1. Free from psychopathology
2. Had progressed through the hierarchy of needs
3. B-values
4. “Full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, potentialities, etc.”

Answer 12

Criteria for Self-Actualization

Question 13

He distinguished between ordinary need motivation and the motives of self-actualizing people, which he called _____.

Answer 13

Metamotivation

Question 14

The values of self-actualizing people include truth, goodness, beauty, wholeness or the transcendence of dichotomies, aliveness or spontaneity, uniqueness, perfection, completion, justice and order, simplicity, richness or totality, effortlessness, playfulness or humor, and self-sufficiency or autonomy.

Answer 14

14 Being Values

Question 15

1. More Efficient Perception of Reality (vs. fake)
2. Acceptance of Self, Others, and Nature (no critical others)
3. Spontaneity, Simplicity, and Naturalness (real, no social demands)
4. Problem-Centering (do not blame people)
5. The Need for Privacy
6. Autonomy (Do not care about other opinions, no approval from others)
7. Continued Freshness of Appreciation (appreciative)
8. The Peak Experience (momentum)
9. Gemeinschaftsgefühl
10. Profound Interpersonal Relations (few friends)
11. The Democratic Character Structure (not racist)
12. Discrimination Between Means and Ends
13. Philosophical Sense of Humor
14. Creativeness
15. Resistance to Enculturation

Answer 15

Characteristics of Self-Actualizing People

Question 16

Safeguarding Tendency’s Excuses

Answer 16

Jonah Complex