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Personality Theory Quiz 3
Maslow, May, Rogers
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
11/26/2012

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Holistic-Dynamic Theory
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The theory Abraham Maslow created.
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Definition of Maslow's Theory
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Stresses both the unity of the organism and the motivational aspects of personality.
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Conative Needs
Definition
Needs that pertain to willful and purposive striving.
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Hierarchy of Needs
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Needs ordered in such a manner that those on a lower level must be satisfied before higher level needs become activated. Physiological needs, Safety, Love and Belongingness, Esteem, Self-Actualization. <- Highest level
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B-Values
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The values of self actualizing people.
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Metamotivation
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Motives of self-actualizing people. Especially B-Values. Expressive rather than coping behavior. Differentiates self-actualizing people from those who are not.
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D-Love
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deficiency love or affection based on the lovers specific deficiency and the loved one's ability to satisfy that deficit.
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Aesthetic Needs
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Needs for art, music, beauty, and the like.
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Cognitive Needs
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Needs for knowledge and understanding.
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Neurotic Needs
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Nonproductive needs that are opposed to the basic needs. They block psychological health whether or not they are satisfied.
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Metapathology
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Illness, characterized by absence of values, lack of fulfillment, and loss of meaning. Results from deprivation of self-actualization needs.
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Pathology
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What occurs during a deprivation of needs.
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Instinctoid Needs
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Needs that are innately determined but that can be modified through learning.
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Jonah Complex
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The fear of being or doing one's best. Characterized by attempts to run away from one's destiny.
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Existential Psychology
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The theory Rollo May created.
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Umwelt
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An existentialist term meaning the world of things or objects.
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Mitwelt
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An existentialist term meaning the world of one’s relationship to other people.
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Eigenwelt
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An existentialist term meaning the world of one’s relationship to self.
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Existential Freedom
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The freedom of doing one’s will.
Existential freedom can be limited by chains or bars.
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Essential Freedom
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The freedom of being, or the freedom of the conscious mind. Essential freedom cannot be limited by chains or bars.
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Person-Centered Theory
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The theory Carl Rogers created.
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Formative Tendency
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Tendency in all matter to evolve from simpler to more complex forms.
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Actualizing Tendency
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Tendency within all people to move toward completion or fulfillment of potentials.
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Self Concept
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Aspects of one’s being and experiences that an individual is consciously aware of.
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Incongruence
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When the self concept is too far from the ideal self. The perception of discrepancies between organismic self, self-concept, and ideal self.
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Ideal Self
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One’s view of self as one would like to be.
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Conditions of Worth
Definition
Restrictions or qualifications attached to one person’s regard for another.
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Vulernability
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A condition that exists when people are unaware of the discrepancy between their organismic self and their significant experiences.
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Unconditional Positive Regard
Definition
The need to be accepted and prized by another without any restrictions or qualifications.
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Congruence
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The matching of organismic experiences with awareness and with the ability to express those experiences.
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Empathic Listening
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The accurate sensing of the feelings of another and the communication of these perceptions.
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Person of Tomorrow
Definition
The psychologically healthy individual in the process of evolving into all that he or she can become.
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B-Love
Definition
Love between self-actualizing people and characterized by the love for the being of the other.
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