Maslow Flashcards

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Maslow’s view on motivation

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  1. Holistic approach
  2. Motivation is complex
  3. Continually motivated by one need or another
  4. All people are motivated by the same basic needs
  5. Needs can be arranged on a hierarchy
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Assumes that lower level needs mist be satisfied or at least relatively satisfied before higher needs become motivators

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Hierarchy of needs

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3
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The components of hierarchy kf needs are called

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Conative needs

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4
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they have a striving or motivational character

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Conative needs

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5
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Hierarchy of needs

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1 physiological
2 safety
3 love and belongingness
4 esteem
5 self actualization
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6
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2 difference of physiological needs to other

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1 they canbe overly satisfied

2 recurring in nature

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7
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Most basic need

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Physiological needs

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8
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Differ from physiological needs that it cant be overly satisfied

Children mostly often motivated by this because they live with such threats as punishment ect

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Safety needs

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9
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Healthy people who constantly try to satisfy safety needs siffer from

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Basic anxiety

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10
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2 levels of esteem needs

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Reputation

Self esteem

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Perception of the prestige, recognition, or fame a person has achieved in the eyes of others

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Reputation

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12
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Person’s own feelings of worth and confidence

Based on real competence

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Self esteem

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13
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Aesthetic needs

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Desire for beautiful and orderly surroundings

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Desire to know, to solve mysteries, to ubderstand, and to be curious.

This is necessary to satisfy each five conative needs

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Cognitive needs

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15
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Pathology of cognitive needs

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Skepticism
Disillusionment
Cynicism

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16
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usually reactive and serve as a compensation for unsatisfied basic needs

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Neurotic needs

17
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Hypothetical average a person has hi/her conative need satisfeed

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Physiological 85
Safety 70
Love and belongingness 50
Esteem 40
Self actualization 10
18
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It is frequently unconscious and usually takes place naturally and with little effort

No goal or aim just a person’s mode of expression

Can continue withouth a reinforcement or a reward

Unlearned spontaneous determined by forces within not with the environment

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Expressive behavior

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Ordinarily conscious effortful learned and determined by external environment

Serves some aim or goal and it is motivated by some deficit need

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Coping behavior

20
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Deprivation of self actualization needs

The abscence of values, lack of fulfillment, and loss of meaning in life

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Metapathology

21
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human needs that are innstely determined even though they can be modified by learning

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Instinctoid needs

22
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Criterion for non instinctoid and instinctoid

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  1. Level of pathology upon frustration.
  2. Instinctoid needs are persistent and their satisfaction leads to psychological health. Non instinctoid is temporary and not a pre requisite for health.
  3. Need are species -specific.
  4. Can be molded or altered by environmental influences.
23
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Comparison of higher and lower needs

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1 degree. higher level need are on the phylogenetic or evolutionary scale and appear later during the course of the individual. Lower needs must be cared for before higher

2 higher level of needs produces more happiness and more peak experience. Lower needs produces degree of pleasure

24
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Criteria for self actualization

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Free from psychopathology
Had progressed through the hierarchy of needs
Embraced the B values
Full use and exploitation of talents, capacities, and potentialities

25
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Self actualizing people are motivated by

They are the ultimate level of needs

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B values

26
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Characteristics of self actualizing people

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1 more efficient perception of reality - suited to be philosophers, explorers, or scientists

2 accept self, others, and nature

3 spontaneity, simplicity, and naturalness

4 problem centering

5 need for privacy

6 autonomy

7 continued freshness of appreciation

8 peak experience

9 social interest

10 profound interpersonal relations

11 Democratic character structure

12 discrimination between means and ends

13 philosophical sense of humor

14 creativeness

15 resistance to enculturation

27
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Type of science that lacks emotion, joy, wonder, awe, rupture.

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Desacralization

28
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one that would be non interfering, passive, receptive. Would abolish prediction and control

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Taoistic attitude for psychology

29
Q

blocks people toward self actualization

Fear of one’s best

Represents a fear of success, a fear of being one’s best, a feeling of awesomeness in the presence of beauty and perfection

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Jonah complex