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n. Chapter 15 Abraham Maslow
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12/09/2013

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acceptance of democratic values
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characterizes the self actualizing person
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acceptance of self, others and nature
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characterizes the self actualizing person
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e and full perception of reality
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characterizes the self actualizing person
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aesthetic needs
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innate need for such qulities as symmetry, closure, and order, observed most clearly in children and in self actualizing adults
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ashrams
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retreats in India  where ordinary citizens can go for various periods of time to escape everyday anxieties and refect on the meaning of their lives
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being cognition, b cognition and b perception
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thinking or perceiving that is governed by b values tather than by d motives. Such cognition is richer and fuller than d cognition
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being motivation
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motivation governed by the pursuit of b values instead of by the satidfaction of basic deficiencies.
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being values (metamotives)
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those higher aspects of life pursued by self actualizing individuals. Included are such values as truth, goodness, beauty, justice, and perfection
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belongingness and love needs
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third cluster of needs in the hierarchy of needs. Included are the needs for affiliation with others and for the feeling of being loved.
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b love
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deep nonpossessive, insatiable, emotional relationship that is not aimed at satisfying any particular need. such love contrasts with d love
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continued freshness of appreciation
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characerizes the seld actualizing person
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creativity
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characterizes the self actualizing person
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d love
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motivated by the need for love and belongingness. such love is selfish because it satisfies a personal deficiency. such love contrasts with b love
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deficiency motivation
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motivation governed by the basic needs, characterizes the lives of individuals who are not self actualizing
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deficiency motive
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needs or deficiencies that exsist in the neierarchy of needs prior to the level of self actualizations
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descaralization
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any process that distorts human nature and depicts it as less marvelous and dignified than it is.
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desire to know and understand
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innate curiosity that Maslow beleived was functionally related to the ability to satisfy all human needs
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esalen institute
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institute in california modeled after the Indian ashram where noneurotic healthy people can further develop their inner recources.
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esteem needs
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fourth cluster of needs in the hierarchy of needs. Included are the needs for status, prestige, competence, and confidence.
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eupsychia
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Maslow's name for the utopia that he beleived a community of healthy adults could create.
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eupsychian management
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industrial or societal management that attempts to consider the basic human needs as Maslow viewed them
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fourth force psychology, transpersonal psychology
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psychology that examines the human relationship to cosmos or to something bigger than we are and the mystical, spiritualm or peak experiences that the realization os such a relationship produces.
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growth center
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Western equivalent of the Indiah ashram. A place where healthy individuals can expand their potentialities
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guru
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Spiritual leader of an Ashram
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Hierarchy of human needs
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arrangement of the needs from the lowest to the highest in terms of their potency
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hoistic analytic approach to science
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strategy of studying an object of interest as a totaluty rather than attempting to reduce it to its component parts.
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humanistic psychology, third force
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approach to psychology that emphasizs the experienceing person, creativity, the study of socially and personally significant problems, and the dignity and enhancement of people
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intinctoid
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term maslow used to descrive the nature of the humans needs. This need is innate by weak and is easily modified by environmental conditions
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jonah complex
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the dear of ones own potential freatness and the ambivalent feelings toward greatness in others
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metapathology
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psycological disorder that results when a being motive is not allowed proper expression
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need direction percetion
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perception motivated by a search for objects or events that will satify a basic need, for example, a hungry person will look for food.
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peak experiences
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mystic, oceaniz experiences that are accompanies by a feeling of extacy or rapture. Such experiences were though by Maslow to reach their full magnitude as b values are fully embraced
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physiological needs
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most basic cluster of needs in the heirarchy of needs. Included are the needs for water, food, oxygen, and sleep eliminationm and sex
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positive psychology
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field in contemporary psychology that explores the higher aspects of humans bu does so in a way that is more scientifically rigourous and less self centered than was humanistic psychology
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reductive-analytic approach to science
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strategy of reducing an object of interest to its component parts in order to study and understand it.
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safety needs
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second cluster of needs in the hierarchy of needs. Included is the need for order, security, and predictability.
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self actualization
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highest level in the hierarchy of needs, which can be reached only if the preceding need levels have been adequately satidfied. the self actualizing individual oerates at full capacity and is b motivated rather than d motivated
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ynergy
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working together.
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