Lesson 9 - Abraham Maslow

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, that is, self-actualization

Answer 1

Holistic-Dynamic Theory

Question 2

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

5 basic assumptions of maslow with regards to motivation:

Answer 3

holistic approach to motivation

Motivation usually complex

People are continually motivated by one need or another

All people everywhere are motivated by the same basic needs

Needs can be arranged on a heirarchy

Question 4

Can be completely satisfied or overly satisfied , and is reccuring in nature

Answer 4

Physiological needs

Question 5

When people are unsuccessful in attempts to satisfy safety needs.

Answer 5

Basic Anxiety

Question 6

do not inevitably follow from the satisfaction of esteem
needs.

Answer 6

Self-actualization needs

Question 7

Only by embracing such B-values as truth, beauty, oneness, justice, etc. people can achieve_________

Answer 7

self-actualization

Question 8

desire for beauty and order, and some people have much stronger aesthetic needs than do others

Answer 8

Aesthetic Needs

Question 9

desire to know, to understand, and to be curious. Knowledge is a prerequisite for each of the five conative needs

Answer 9

Cognitive needs

Question 10

desire to dominate, to inflict pain, or to subject oneself to the will of another person. Lead to pathology whether or not they are satisfied.

Answer 10

Neurotic Needs

Question 11

certain rare cases, the order of needs might be?

Answer 11

Reversed

Question 12

Deprivation of any needs leads to ?

Answer 12

pathology

Question 13

people’s inability to reach self-actualization results in?

Answer 13

metapathology

Question 14

innately determined even though they can be modified by learning.

Answer 14

Instinctiod Needs

Question 15

Four criteria must be met before a person achieves self-actualization:

Answer 15

Free from psychopathology

Have progressed through the heirarchy of needs

Embracing of the B-values

Full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, potentialities, etc.

Question 16

Eternal Varities

Answer 16

B-Values

Question 17

Maslow distinguished between ordinary need motivation and the motives of self-actualizing people, which he call?

Answer 17

Metamotivation

Question 18

Maslow termed B-values as____________ to indicate that
they are the ultimate level of needs, indicators of psychological health

Answer 18

metaneeds

Question 19

One abnormal syndrome is the fear being or doing one’s best, a condition that all of us have to some extent.

Answer 19

Jonah Complex

Question 20

Maslow believed that many people allow this to stifle their creativity and to fall short of self-actualization

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false humility

Question 21

Aim of therapy would be for clients to embrace the
Being values, that is, to value truth, justice, goodness, simplicity, and so forth

Answer 21

Maslow’s Psychotherapy

Question 22

Pessimism vs optimism

Answer 22

Optimism

Question 23

Causality vs Teleology

Answer 23

Teleology