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Maslow
Theories of Personality
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10/30/2012

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Self-actualization
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process whereby the healthy development of peoples abilities enables them to fulfill their own true natures
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Humanistic biology
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the basic nature of human beings is potentially good and capable of pushing people in the direction of self-realization if the right social conditions prevail
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Deficiency/basic needs
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lower needs that must be gratified before it becomes possible to move into the growth area
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Growth/meta needs
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higher needs that may emerge once the basic needs have been satisfied
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Physiological needs
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needs for food, water, sex, air, sleep (most important)
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Safety needs
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needs for feeling, protection, structure, freedom within limits
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Belongingness and love needs
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needs to feel that we have a place and that we are loved
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Esteem needs
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needs for respect and recognition (least important basic need)
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Authoritative parenting
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disciplinary style in which children are consulted by parents in the establishment of disciplinary rules (best outcomes in relation to growth)
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Permissive parenting
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disciplinary style in which parents make few demands on their children and use little punishment; “dopey parents” (unrelated to growth)
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Authoritarian parenting
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disciplinary style in which parents discourage verbal give-and-take with their children and instead expect unquestioning obedience to their judgments (stunted growth or movement toward self-actualization)
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Peak experience
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intense, mystical experience in which an individual exists in a temporary state of joy and wonderment
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Self-actualizer
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individuals who have gratified their basic needs and developed their potentialities to the point that they can be considered healthy, more fully functioning human beings
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What was the objective of Maslow’s humanistic biology?
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How do we move toward selfactualization?
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Basic needs must be met so we are free to pursue fulfillment of meta needs and move toward self-actualization
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List and explain the basic needs (in order)
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physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, self actualization
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Explain Dlove vs. Blove
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deficiency vs. being love
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B-love
Definition
selfish love in which the individual is more concerned with receiving love and gratifying his or her needs than with giving love to another; also know as deficiency love
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D-love
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mature form of love in which the person is more concerned with giving love to benefit others than in receiving love from others to gratify his or her needs; also known as being-love
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Explain the two sets of esteem needs
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self esteem vs. esteem from others
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self-esteem
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respect based on our own competence, independence, and achievements. You need to look at your ability, not compare yourself to others, or how others perceive you
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esteem from others
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respect and recognition accorded us by others
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How is parenting related to selfactualization?
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List some of the characteristics of selfactualizers
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What are some of the behaviors that lead to selfactualization?
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Compare transcending vs. nontranscending selfactualizer
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Transcending individual seeks to further a cause beyond the self and experience communion with others and nature
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Maslow’s view of personality development
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in which the person must satisfy the lower needs before the higher ones can become operative
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Describe the POI and problems with it
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measure of self-actualization
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Maslow’s views of therapy
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Neurotics are those who have been unable to satisfy their basic needs and thus have been precluded from moving toward the ultimate goal of self-actualization; and must be interpersonal in nature
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Be able to identify what needs someone is focused on and what needs are being ignored given a short case description
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