Maslow

Question 1

Famous quote from Maslow? What does it mean?

Answer 1

“Anyone who observes a baby cannot be a behaviorist.”

Babies already exhibit many in-born personalities. He thought that calling oneself a “behaviorist” after observing a baby was hypocritical.

Question 2

What are Maslow’s core tendencies?

Answer 2

Five basic needs:

Self-actualization, esteem, love, safety, physiological

Question 3

What is Maslow’s core structure?

Answer 3

Hierarchy

Question 4

How are Maslow’s five basic needs listed? Which comes first? Which comes last?

Answer 4

Self-actualization (last)
Esteem
Love
Safety
Physiological (first)

Question 5

Which needs are considered “upper needs”/B values?

Answer 5

Self-actualization, esteem, and love

Question 6

Which needs are considered “lower needs”/D values?

Answer 6

Love, safety, and physiological

Question 7

What are the symptoms for the physiological need?

Answer 7

Hunger, thirst, and pain

Question 8

What are the symptoms for the safety need?

Answer 8

Sense of loss, insecurity, and fear

Question 9

What are the symptoms for the love need?

Answer 9

Loneliness, emptiness, and unwanted

Question 10

What are the symptoms for the esteem need?

Answer 10

Inferiority, incompetence, and negativity

Question 11

What are the symptoms for the self-actualization need?

Answer 11

Boredom, the belief that life is routine and meaningless

Question 12

True or false: Maslow believed that we were stuck at a certain level

Answer 12

False. He believed we weren’t stuck at a level, and we could go through different levels multiple times. However, he believed that some individuals can struggle more at one level than another.

Question 13

When a person’s needs at a certain level are fulfilled…

Answer 13

Their “illness” can disappear (i.e., hunger, depression)

Question 14

If all needs are unsatisfied…

Answer 14

Then that person is at a physiological level

Question 15

Which are the regulations/rules of Maslow’s Hierarchy?

Answer 15

1) Potency of needs
2) Evolution
3) Biological vs. psychological
4) Difficulty of gratification
5) D. vs. B. mechanisms

Question 16

Which level is more potent? Which level is less potent?

Answer 16

More potent: physiological

Less potent: self-actualization

Question 17

According to evolution, it describes…

Answer 17

How widely they are shared among living things

The order of levels in which they appear

Question 18

Which are the biological needs? Which are the psychological needs?

Answer 18

Biological: lower needs
Psychological: upper needs

Question 19

The difficulty of gratification describes…

Answer 19

Which level is more difficult to fulfill

Which level is least difficult to fulfill

Question 20

What do B values motivate us to do?

Answer 20

They motivate us to do something that improves us and to do better

Question 21

What do D values motivate us to do?

Answer 21

They motivate us to accept our needs

Question 22

Why is love split between both B and D values?

Answer 22

It’s split into B value because it causes excitement; desperation drives individual to find love

It’s also split into D value because the patience drives individual to find love

Question 23

The actualized person has “_____” experiences.

Answer 23

Peak

Question 24

What are the traits of an actualized person?

Answer 24

Creative
Spontaneous
Open to experience
Accepting of themselves
Social interest
Democratic
Challenged by life
Excited
Meaningful

Question 25

True or false: Maslow does not believe that self-actualization is actually permanent

Answer 25

True

Question 26

What are needs?

Answer 26

Desires for certain satisfactions that are sought by all humans, regardless of their culture, environment, or generation

Question 27

What does Maslow believe about drive?

Answer 27

He stated that drive was inherently ambiguous, and was an entirely satisfactory motivational concept, even though it is a simple tension that demands to be satisfied.

Question 28

According to Maslow, while the needs a person experiences are universal, the methods used to satisfy them may be…

Answer 28

Specific to the individual’s culture

Question 29

This level encompasses specific biological requirements for water, oxygen, proteins, vitamins, proper body temperature, sleep, sex, exercise, and so on.

Answer 29

Physiological

Question 30

This level includes security, protection, stability, structure, law and order, and freedom for fear and chaos.

Answer 30

Safety

Question 31

This level orients the person toward affectionate relations with people, and a sense of place in family and groups.

Answer 31

Love

Question 32

This level includes two kinds: 1) there are personal desires for adequacy, mastery, competence, achievement, confidence, independence, and freedom; and 2) there are desires for respect from other people, including attention, recognition, appreciation, status, prestige, fame, dominance, and dignity.

Answer 32

Esteem

Question 33

This level states “the desire for self-fulfillment… the tendency for [one] to become actualized in what [one] is potentially.”

Answer 33

Self-actualization

Question 34

What are deficiency needs?

Answer 34

D-values. The satisfaction of which allow the person to avoid physical sickness and psychological maladjustment.

Question 35

What does pre-potent mean?

Answer 35

More urgently demanding than higher order needs. Needs lower in the hierarchy occur earlier in the developmental process and require gratification prior to higher-order needs.

Question 36

Maslow considers all human needs and values _____, or instinct-like, because of their biological, genetic, and universal characteristics. Thus, all basic and higher-order needs are biological needs.

Answer 36

Instinctoid

Question 37

What are B-values?

Answer 37

Ultimate or end-goals of meta-need fulfillment; are more likely to be possessed by self-actualizers than by others.