Lesson 9 - Abraham Maslow Flashcards
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
Holistic-Dynamic Theory
Been called humanistic theory, transpersonal theory,
the third force in psychology, the fourth force in personality, needs theory, and self-actualization theory.
Holistic Dynamic Theory
5 basic assumptions of maslow with regards to motivation:
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
Can be completely satisfied or overly satisfied , and is reccuring in nature
Physiological needs
When people are unsuccessful in attempts to satisfy safety needs.
Basic Anxiety
do not inevitably follow from the satisfaction of esteem
needs.
Self-actualization needs
Only by embracing such B-values as truth, beauty, oneness, justice, etc. people can achieve_________
self-actualization
desire for beauty and order, and some people have much stronger aesthetic needs than do others
Aesthetic Needs
desire to know, to understand, and to be curious. Knowledge is a prerequisite for each of the five conative needs
Cognitive needs
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.
Neurotic Needs
certain rare cases, the order of needs might be?
Reversed
Deprivation of any needs leads to ?
pathology
people’s inability to reach self-actualization results in?
metapathology
innately determined even though they can be modified by learning.
Instinctiod Needs
Four criteria must be met before a person achieves self-actualization:
Free from psychopathology
Have progressed through the heirarchy of needs
Embracing of the B-values
Full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, potentialities, etc.
Eternal Varities
B-Values
Maslow distinguished between ordinary need motivation and the motives of self-actualizing people, which he call?
Metamotivation
Maslow termed B-values as____________ to indicate that
they are the ultimate level of needs, indicators of psychological health
metaneeds
One abnormal syndrome is the fear being or doing one’s best, a condition that all of us have to some extent.
Jonah Complex
Maslow believed that many people allow this to stifle their creativity and to fall short of self-actualization
false humility
Aim of therapy would be for clients to embrace the
Being values, that is, to value truth, justice, goodness, simplicity, and so forth
Maslow’s Psychotherapy
Pessimism vs optimism
Optimism
Causality vs Teleology
Teleology
