Humanistic Approach

Question 1

Emphasis on __________ in the 1960s provided fertile soil for the growth of humanistic psychology.

Answer 1

B. Individuality

Question 2

2. Which of the following is not a key element of humanistic psychology?

Answer 2

B. Identity Crisis

Question 3

3. Whereas psychoanalysts emphasize that adult personalities are formed in childhood, humanistic therapist focus on:

Answer 3

D the here and now

Question 4

4. Which of the following is characteristic of the fully functioning person according to Carl Rogers?

Answer 4

D all of the above

They trust their own feelings
They are open to their experiences
They pay attention to what is happening in the here and now

Question 5

5. Abraham Maslow said the motive that results from a lack of some object is called a __________ motive.

Answer 5

C deficiency motive

Question 6

6. Maslow stated that people lose their anxieties and experience a unity of self with the universe during:

Answer 6

A Peak experiences

Question 7

7. When Mihaly Csikszentnihalyi asked people to identify a moment when they felt the most alive, participants in his study said that:

Answer 7

D all of the above

The task they were engaged in was challenging
The experience involved a task that demanded the person’s full concentration
Each step in the experience seemed to flow automatically to the next

Question 8

8. Flow according to Mihaly is a personal feeling that you can get when you are

Answer 8

E all of the above

Working on a challenging cross word puzzle
Working on a challenging math problem
Competing in a challenging athletic performance
Working toward an important and challenging deadline at your job.

Question 9

9. According to Carl Rogers the proper therapeutic relationship between therapist and client includes which of the following?

Answer 9

D unconditional positive regard

Question 10

10. During person centered therapy the therapist offers ___________ of what the client seems to be saying.

Answer 10

C a restatement

Question 11

11. When are people more likely to experience flow?

Answer 11

D. When working at ones job.

Question 12

12. Carl Rogers believed that research into how people change during psychotherapy would help therapists:

Answer 12

D. Improve their ability to work with clients

Question 13

13. The use of the Q sort technique of personality assessment fits nicely with Carl Roger’s theory of personality because :

Answer 13

A. Clients know themselves best.

Question 14

14. Advocates of the ____________ approach probably have generated less empirical research than psychologists from other approaches.

Answer 14

C. Humanistic

Question 15

15. Dyadic Effect is the observation that persons who disclose personal information in conversation tend to:

Answer 15

C. Match each other’s level of intimacy

Question 16

16. In a self disclosure study in which students took turns volunteering information about themselves the students:

Answer 16

D. All of the above

Selected increasingly intimate topics
Began with a discussion on trivial topics
Tended to match their partners level of intimacy

Question 17

17. Self disclosing men are seen as well adjusted as long as

Answer 17

D. They talk about masculine topics

Question 18

18. Some existential psychologists believe that feelings of loneliness reflect a deeper concern about existential questions of

Answer 18

C. Alienation and the search for ones meaning in life

Question 19

19. Low self esteem people typically react to failure by :

Answer 19

A. Losing their motivation

Question 20

20. When high self esteem people are confronted with a negative evaluation, they:

Answer 20

B. Tell themselves how well they do in other areas.

Question 21

21. In order to measure self esteem stability researchers have

Answer 21

C. Asked people to regularly report their feelings of self worth