Maslow - Holistic-Dynamic Theory Flashcards
Name of Maslow’s theory?
Holistic-Dynamic theory
What did Maslow assume about motivation?
It affects the whole person – it’s complete, unconscious, continual and applicable to all people.
Name the five conative needs, according to Maslow.
Physiological Safety Love & belongingness Esteem Self-actualization
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs concept assumes what?
That lower level needs must be relatively satisfied before higher needs.
Maslow: These needs are _____ because have a striving or motivational character.
Conative
Maslow: What are the four dimensions of needs?
Conative (willful striving)
Aesthetic (need for order & beauty)
Cognitive (need for curiosity & knowledge. Necessary to satisfy the five conative ones.)
Neurotic (unproductive pattern of relating to ppl)
Maslow: Neurotic needs always lead to ____.
Stagnation and pathology.
These have no value in striving to self-actualization.
Maslow: T/F: Much of expressive behavior is intentional.
False. It’s unmotivated. It’s simply a way of expressing oneself.
Maslow: _____ behavior has a cause but is not motivated. It’s just a way to express oneself.
Expressive behavior
Maslow: ____ behavior is motivating and is directed toward the satisfaction of basic needs.
Coping behavior
(attempts to cope with the environment; to secure food and shelter; to make friends; and to receive acceptance, appreciation, and prestige from others).
Maslow: Coping behavior is always motivated by ______.
A deficit basic need. It’s learned, conscious and effortful.
Maslow: The deprivation of instinctoid needs leads to what?
Pathology
Maslow: Cognitive needs, including self-actualization, are ___. Their deprivation leads to pathology.
Instinctoid
Maslow: Name two differences between lower and higher needs.
Higher level needs are:
- Later on the phylogenetic or evolutionary scale – needed by higher-level species.
- Produce more happiness and peak experiences than lower needs.
Maslow: High level needs are on the ____ scale.
Phylogenetic or evolutionary scale
Maslow: Which criterion separates self-actualizing people from those who are merely healthy but mired at the level of esteem?
Embracing B-values (truth, beauty, justice, simplicity, humor, etc.)
Maslow: Do self-actualizing people focus more on means or ends?
Ends. What other people see as means, self-actualizing ppl often see as an end. They enjoy doing something for its own sake.
Maslow: A non-interfering, passive, receptive attitude toward psychology is a ____ attitude.
Taoistic attitude
Maslow: What does the Personal Orientation Inventory measure?
Values and behaviors of self-actualizing people.
Maslow: Fear of being one’s best, characterized by attempts to run away from destiny is a ____ ____.
Jonah complex.
For Maslow, what is the goal of psychotherapy?
For clients to embrace Being values (B-values).
Maslow: What should psychotherapy be directed at?
The need currently being thwarted.
Maslow: Deprivation of self-actualization leads to ______.
Metapathlogy and a rejection of the B-values.
Maslow: Define metapathology
The absence of values, lack of fulfillment, and loss of the meaning of life.
Maslow: Occasionally, needs on the hierarchy can be ___ but only in appearance.
Reversed. Unconscious motivation of behavior follows need order.
Summarize Maslow’s Holistic-Dynamic Theory
- Ppl are motivated by four dimensions of need: conative (striving), aesthetic (order, beauty), cognitive (knowledge), neurotic (unproductive relating to ppl).
- Conative needs on a hierarchy – physio, safety, love & belongingness, esteem, self-actual.
- The conative needs are Instinctoid – deprivation leads to pathology.
- Acceptance of B-values (truth, beauty, humor, etc.) separates self-act. ppl from others.
