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PSY 233 FINAL
Chapter 15 Maslow
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
12/12/2011

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Maslow believed that failure to satisfy the _____ needs explained why so many Americans are seeking psychotherapy and joining sensitivity and encounter groups
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belongingness and love
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Food, esteem, and belongingness exemplify:
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D-motives
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Maslow referred to the evasion of one's destiny as:
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the Jonah complex
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Which of Maslow's concepts have been supported by empirical evidence:
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the hierarchy of needs, the characteristics of self-actualizing individuals, peak experiences
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Maslow found that self-actualizers tended to seek out ____ as their close friends:
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other self-actualizers
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The views of human nature held by Maslow and Freud are:
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about as different as two views of human nature can be
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Maslow believed that his training in psychology did not equip him to understand
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people whom he considered remarkable
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which theories are humanistically oriented?
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Maslow, Rogers, Allport, Kelly
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According to Maslow, the lives on nonactualizing persons are governed by:
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D-motives
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Maslow's theory has been praised for:
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increasing psychology's domain, having considerable applied value, emphasizing the study of healthy individuals
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Which of the following did Maslow find charaterizes self-actualizing individuals
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they perceive reality accurately, they have a need for privacy, they have only a few close friends
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Maslow believed that the primary motivation for his life's work was provided by:
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his hatred toward his mother
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Maslow believed that exceptions to the normal progression through the hierarhy of needs could occur if a person:
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went too long without adequate satisfaction of his or her physiological needs, is starved for love in his or her early childhood, is innately creative
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__________ perception is similar to a highly focused searchlight seeking objects which will satisfy needs, and ignoring everything irrelevant to that need:
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D-, need-directed, deficiency-
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Maslow characterized what he believed was the optimal set of circustances for a child as
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Freedom within limits
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Towards the end of his life, Maslow proposed a type of psychology that transcended personal identity and experience. This new psychology was referred to as:
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transpersonal
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When the individual satisfies his or her need for the belongingness and love, he or she next confronts the ____ needs
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esteem
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Ashrams are places where
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already healthy people can become healthier
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Maslow believed that his research on the characteristics of self-actualizing people was:
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informal and unscientific
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synergy means
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working together
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according to Maslow, _____ needs are directly related to survival and are the same as the needs possessed by nonhuman animals:
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physiological
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Maslow called moments of intense B-cognition
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peak experiences
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According to Maslow, what would happen if after a person had reached a higher cluster of needs in the hierarchy a lower set of needs once again dominated in his or her life:
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the person would regress to the lower level
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According to Maslow, individuals
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attend to the sam needs corresponding to several levels of he hierarchy at the same time
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Maslow's theory has been criticized for
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leaving too many important questions unanswered, being unscientific, being overly optimistic about human nature
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Which of the following did Maslow believe must exist in one's life before self-actualization can occur
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freedom of speech, freedom to do what one wants to do as long as it harms no one else, fairness, justice, and honesty
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Maslow concluded that:
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there are no perfect human beings
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Maslow found that the "nonpeakers" among self-actualizing people tended to be
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practical
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Maslow believed that
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some individuals are so innately creative that they do not need to progress through the hierarchy of needs in order to be creative
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