321: Exam 4 study guide part 1

5 human needs (R-T-R-I-F)

Relatedness, Transcendence, Rootedness, Identity, Frame of orientation

Relatedness

How do I connect without losing myself?

Love: union while preserving integrity and individuality

Transcendence

How do I rise above the passive creaturehood? `

Creation: unhealthy alternative is destructiveness

Rootedness

Where do I belong?

Wholeness and connection without being trapped in fixation

Sense of identity

Who am I?

A genuine sense of self rather than a borrowed social identity

Frame of orientation

How do I make sense of the world?

A coherent, reality-based philosophy or map of experience

Submission

person gives up autonomy to another person, group, or institution to reduce isolation (no)

Power

Person dominated another and makes the other part of the self (no)

Love

Union with another while preserving both people’s integrity and individuality (yes)

Authoritarianism

Giving up independence through masochistic submission or sadistic domination

(joins the self to a larger power and reduces separateness)

Destructiveness

Attempting to eliminate the threatening world or others

(Removes the source of perceived powerlessness by destroying it)

Automaton conformity

Becoming what society expects until one’s pseudo-self feels like the real self

(Avoids isolation by disappearing into social expectations)

Receptive

Expects good things to come from outside; receives rather than produces

(“ someone else will give me what i need”)

Exploitative

Takes what is wanted from others

(i get it by taking it”)

Hoarding

Security through saving, retaining, controlling, and resisting change.

(‘keep it; dont’t lose it”)

Marketing

Treats the self as a commodity whose value depends on demand

(“become what the market wants”)

Productive

Uses reason, work, and love while maintaining autonomy.

(Growth, creativity, genuine relatedness)

malignant aggression

Destructive aggression beyond biological self-defense; specifically human in Fromm’s account

Alienation

Estrangement from one’s work, others and ultimately oneself

Social character

core character pattern shared by mebers of a culture because the society needs that pattern to function

Necrophilia

orientation toward death, decay, control, and the mechanical; not the sexual definition

biophillia

love of life, growth, and living processes

syndrome of decay

necrophilia, malignant narcissism, incestuous symbiosis

Syndrome of growth

biophilia, love of other, positive freedom

whole person is motivated

Motivation involves the integrated person, not an isolated organ or behavior

Motivation is complex

A single behavior can satisfy several motives at once

people are continually motivated

when one need quiets, another usually becomes salient

basic needs are broadly universal

Culture shapes how needs are satisfied more than whether the needs exist

needs form a hierarchy

lower, stronger need generally demand attention before higher needs dominate m

much motivation can be unconscious

the surface reason for behavior may not reveal the underlying need

starts with (D)

a lack or deficiency

goal (D)

remove the deficit

Effect of satisfaction (D)

reduces or ends the motive

typical needs (D)

physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem

experience (D)

urgent, narrowing

starts with (B)

growth and expression from within

goal (B)

become more fully what one can be

effect of satisfaction (B)`

can strengthen the motivation

typical needs (B)

Self-actualization/ meta motivation

experience (B)

absorbing, intrinsically rewarding

D motivation

quiets when satisfied

B motivation

can grow stronger through fulfillment