Module 45/46

Question 0

Humanistic psychologists

Answer 0

Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.

Question 1

Humanistic psychology

Answer 1

Psychologists wanted to focus on healthy people and how to help them strive to be all they can be, or fulfill their potential.

Question 2

Self actualization

Answer 2

Maslow proposed that we as individuals are motivated by a hierarchy of needs. Starting with psychological needs we try to reach the state of self actualization by fulfilling our potential.

Question 3

Unconditional positive regard

Answer 3

Carl Rogers also believed in individuals self actualization tendencies. Unconditional positive regard was an attitude of acceptance of others amidst their failings.

Question 4

Defensive self-esteem

Answer 4

Fragile and egotistic.

Question 5

Secure self-esteem

Answer 5

Less fragile and less dependent on external evaluation.

Question 6

Personality inventories

Answer 6

Questionnaires designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors assessing several traits at once.

Question 7

Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory

Answer 7

The most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests originally developed to identify emotional disorders.

Question 8

Personality trait

Answer 8

The characteristics of a person.

Question 9

The big five factors

Answer 9

Conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, and extroversion.

C-A-N-O-E

Question 10

Social – cognitive perspective

Answer 10

Bandura believes that personality is the result of an interaction that takes place between a person and his social context.

Question 11

Reciprocal determinism

Answer 11

Personality is the result of an interaction that takes place between a person and their social context.

Question 12

Reciprocal influences

Answer 12

Behavior, cognition, and environment.

Question 13

External locus of control

Answer 13

Refers to the perception that chance or outside forces beyond our personal control determine our fate.

Question 14

Internal locus of control

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Refers to the perception that we can control our own fate.

Question 15

Learned helplessness

Answer 15

When unable to avoid repeated aversive events, an animal or human learns hopelessness.

Question 16

Positive psychology

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Aims to discover and promote conditions that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Question 17

Positive psychology and humanistic psychology

Answer 17

Positive psychology like humanistic psychology attempts to foster human fulfillment. Focuses on three components or pillars: positive emotions, positive character, and positive groups or cultures.

Question 18

Evaluating the social cognitive perspective

Answer 18

Critics say that social cognitive psychologists pay a lot of attention to the situation and pay less attention to the individual, his unconscious mind, and his emotions and his genetics.