MASLOW

1 : Which term is best associated with Maslow?

a. client-centered therapy

b. self-actualization

c. personal constructs

d. behaviorism

e. functional autonomy

b. self-actualization

2 : During childhood and adolescence, Maslow was

a. shy and socially backwards.

b. pampered by his mother.

c. overly combative with his older brothers.

d. more interested in sports than in books.

a. shy and socially backwards.

3 : As a young man, Maslow experienced a fortuitous event that

changed his life. This event happened when he

a. met Alfred Adler.

b. first kissed his cousin Bertha Goodman.

c. made the Dean's honor roll at Cornell.

d. converted from Judaism to Protestantism.

b. first kissed his cousin Bertha Goodman.

4 : During his early professional career, Maslow was influenced by

a. behaviorism.

b. Harry Harlow.

c. E. L. Thorndike.

d. all of the above.

d. all of the above.

5 : In his theory of motivation, Maslow assumed that

a. people in different cultures have different basic needs.

b. motivation is nearly always conscious.

c. people are motivated by one need at a time.

d. people are continually motivated by one need or another.

e. both a and d are correct.

d. people are continually motivated by one need or another.

6 : Maslow's concept of hierarchy of needs assumes that

a. higher needs have prepotency over lower needs.

b. lower needs have prepotency over higher needs.

c. love needs are more basic than physiological needs.

d. cognitive needs must be satisfied before aesthetic needs become motivators.

e. aesthetic needs are prepotent over cognitive needs.

b. lower needs have prepotency over higher needs.

7 : When safety needs are not satisfied, a person will be

motivated by which needs?

a. physiological

b. safety

c. love and belongingness

d. neurotic

e. cognitive

b. safety

8 : Safety needs are usually strongest for

a. children.

b. men.

c. women.

d. hungry people.

e. mountain climbers.

a. children.

9 : Maslow said that basic anxiety is experienced when people

a. fail to satisfy physiological needs.

b. feel alienated from other people.

c. fail to satisfy safety needs.

d. develop a fear of being and doing their best.

e. are motivated by metaneeds.

c. fail to satisfy safety needs.

10 : A person who has never received love is likely to

a. devalue it.

b. be strongly motivated to attain it.

c. experience basic anxiety.

d. be motivated by esteem needs.

a. devalue it.

11 : Feelings of self-worth, confidence, and competence were

considered by Maslow to be

a. unnecessary for self-actualization.

b. esteem needs.

c. self-actualization needs.

d. love and belongingness needs.

b. esteem needs.

12 : According to Maslow, neurotic needs are activated

a. only when satisfied.

b. only when frustrated.

c. whether they are satisfied or not.

d. when love and belongingness needs are frustrated.

c. whether they are satisfied or not.

13 : With regard to needs, which of these statements would Maslow endorse?

a. Safety needs must be satisfied more fully than physiological needs.

b. People are usually conscious of their underlying needs.

c. The order of needs may be reversed in certain cases.

d. One need must be completely satisfied before another can become a motivator.

c. The order of needs may be reversed in certain cases.

14 : According to Maslow,

a. some behavior is not motivated.

b. all behavior has a cause.

c. both a and b.

d. neither a nor b.

c. both a and b.

15 : Maslow believed that people who fail to satisfy self

actualization needs

a. embrace the M-values.

b. suffer from metapathology.

c. become neurotic.

d. embrace the B-values

b. suffer from metapathology.

16 : Instinctoid needs are those that

a. spring from a modern industrialized society.

b. result in pathology when frustrated.

c. are unique to humans.

d. can be modified by learning.

e. all except a.

e. all except a.

17 : According to Maslow, metamotivation

a. is characterized by coping rather than expressive behavior.

b. is the need for peak experiences.

c. represents the motives of self-actualizing people.

d. is associated with D-values

e. represents the motives of neurotic people.

c. represents the motives of self-actualizing people.

18 : Which of the following was NOT listed by Maslow as a

characteristic of self-actualizing people?

a. social interest

b. autonomy

c. need for privacy

d. acceptance of self, others, and nature

e. people-centered

e. people-centered

19 : Maslow said that self-actualizing people

a. feel lonely when they are alone.

b. experience anxiety when faced with the unknown.

c. desire to inform, convert, and instruct others.

d. experience a more efficient perception of reality.

d. experience a more efficient perception of reality.

20 : Maslow said that B-love is

a. brotherly love.

b. unmotivated, expressive behavior.

c. motivated by love and belongingness needs.

d. motivated by the peak experience.

e. burdensome love.

b. unmotivated, expressive behavior.

21 : Maslow called the fear of being one's best

a. the Jonah complex.

b. the fear of failure.

c. the Moses complex.

d. metapathology.

e. desacralization.

a. the Jonah complex.

22 : Maslow insisted that scientists should

a. be unbiased.

b. discover truth.

c. be willing to desacralize science.

d. be willing to resacralize science.

d. be willing to resacralize science.