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| Maslow's hierarchy of needs- Self actualization |
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| personal growth and fulfillment |
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| Maslow's hierarchy of needs- Esteem needs |
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| achievement, status, responsibility, and reputation |
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| Maslow's hierarchy of needs- Belongingness and Love needs |
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| family, affection, relationships, work groups |
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| Maslow's hierarchy of needs- Safety needs |
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| protection, security, order, law, limits, stability |
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| Maslow's hierarchy of needs- biological and physiological needs |
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| basic life needs- air, food, drink, shelter, warmth, sex, sleep |
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| helps people void feeling devalued by adopting the characteristics or behavior of someone that is either feared or respected |
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| helps people gain social acceptance by accepting the norms and values of others even if contrary to their own beliefs |
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| allows people to avoid acknowledging their own shortcomings by blaming others or the environment for their own unacceptable motives |
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| allows people to discharge their emotions on a safer object or person by substituting the recipient of their emotions to a less threatening target or person |
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| allows people to cope with their inability to meet certain goals or standards by justifying behavior that is unacceptable to a socially acceptable rationale |
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| allows people to avoid the full impact of a threatening situation by ignoring or screening the realities of the situation |
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| Helps people avoid trauma until they have the resources to do so by keeping a threatening thought out of awareness. The repressed material is denied entry into consciousness |
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| allows people to return to an earlier more comfortable level of functioning that was less demanding and responsible |
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| a mechanism that allows people to act the opposite to the way they really feel |
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| allows people to protect themselves from hurt by using a rational explanation to remove the personal significance of an incident |
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| allows people to relieve guilty feelings or make amends by acting to annul some act or thought |
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| allows people to overcome deficits by emphasizing a more desirable trait or by overachieving in some more comfortable area |
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| allows people to avoid acting in socially unacceptable ways by substituting acceptable behavior |
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| allows people to keep frustrations to a minimum by replacing a highly valued, or non-attainable object with an acceptable or attainable object |
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| a young girl identifies with her teacher whom she admires |
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| a teen who uses drugs tells his brother that it is wrong to use drugs |
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| an employee who does not do their job blames the incompetence of his boss |
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| a teenager who has a very bad day at school comes home and fights with his or her sister |
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| a man that verbally abuses his wife says at least I don't hit her |
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| a patient who has been told she has a terminal illness is heard making plans for an extended trip abroad |
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| a person who was present for a terrorist attack can not remember any of the details |
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| a very ill patient lets his nurse feed and bath him like a child |
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| a person who privately likes pornography becomes an advocate of censorship |
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| a mans ill father dies and he says " he wouldn't have wanted to like like that" |
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| a teacher who makes a test too hard curves it so almost everyone passes |
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| a non-athletic person becomes a sports announcer |
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| a person with uninhibited sexual drives becomes morally religious |
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| a person who wants to write for the New York Times but instead settles to work for her hometown newspaper |
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