~~~ self actualisation & determination QUIZ Flashcards
Humanistic psychology is based on the assumption that:
a. everyone has the potential for growth and development.
b. reality is the same for all of humanity.
c. people are victims of circumstance.
d. all of the above
a. everyone has the potential for growth and development.
Humanistic psychology has the following goal:
a. to help people confront their unconscious desires
b. to help people recognize their inherent goodness
c. to help people “unlearn” unhealthy behaviors that have been conditioned in them
d. none of the above
b. to help people recognize their inherent goodness
A major figure in humanistic psychology is:
a. B.F. Skinner.
b. Carl Rogers.
c. William Rogers.
d. Henry Murray.
b. Carl Rogers.
_________ was Rogers’s term for the tendency of each person to develop
capabilities that maintain or enhance the self.
a. Self-actualization
b. Self-realization
c. Self-conceptualization
d. Self-fulfillment
a. Self-actualization
Self-actualization promotes _________ within the person.
a. separateness
b. positive regard
c. congruence
d. conditions of worth
c. congruence
The organismic valuing process refers to the:
a. evaluation of experiences in terms of how threatening they are.
b. interpretation of experiences as potentially important or valuable.
c. evaluation of experiences in terms of how actualizing they are.
d. interpretation of experiences as endangering one’s existing constructs.
c. evaluation of experiences in terms of how actualizing they are.
Someone engaged in self-actualization is said to be:
a. socially integrated.
b. a fully-feeling person.
c. a fully-functioning person.
d. a rational actor.
c. a fully-functioning person
In Rogers’ view, people have a strong need to experience _________, which is the
respect, love, and friendship of others.
a. positive reinforcement
b. conditional acceptance
c. positive regard
d. expectancies of worth
c. positive regard
Affection with no strings attached is referred to as:
a. unconditional positive regard.
b. primary affection.
c. actualized regard.
d. true love.
a. unconditional positive regard.
Brian tells Amy that he will only continue to love her if she stops working too many
hours. He is providing her with:
a. conditional acceptance.
b. conditional positive regard.
c. conditional statements of reinforcement.
d. unconditional negative regard.
b. conditional positive regard.
According to Rogers, after years of having conditions of worth applied to us by others,
we:
a. start to apply them to those around us.
b. learn to ignore them and start applying our own standards.
c. pretend (but fail) to ignore them.
d. start to apply them to ourselves.
d. start to apply them to ourselves.
Conditions of worth and conditional regard have the effect of:
a. making people depressed.
b. making people anxious.
c. altering behavior to fit in with the desires of others.
d. facilitating a person’s goal of self-actualization.
c. altering behavior to fit in with the desires of others.
_________ is more important than _________, according to Rogers.
a. Self-actualization, matters of life and death
b. Fulfilling conditions of worth, unconditional positive regard
c. Unconditional positive regard, self-actualization
d. Self-actualization, fulfilling conditions of worth
d. Self-actualization, fulfilling conditions of worth
Crocker and colleagues have argued that people have _________ of self-worth.
a. failures
b. trials
c. contingencies
d. artifacts
c. contingencies
Which of the following is NOT one of the three basic needs proposed by Deci & Ryan?
a. actualization
b. autonomy
c. competence
d. relatedness
a. actualization
People engage in some activities because they find the activities intrinsically
interesting. Such activities are said to be:
a. self-determined.
b. self-rationalized.
c. self-actualized.
d. explicitly motivated.
a. self-determined.
Research regarding the effects of monetary reward on intrinsic motivation has revealed
that:
a. monetary reward increases motivation.
b. monetary reward decreases motivation.
c. monetary reward can increase or decrease motivation.
d. the effect of monetary reward depends on the passage of time.
c. monetary reward can increase or decrease motivation.
Reward has both a(n) _________ and a(n) _________ aspect.
a. normative, functional
b. restraining, cathartic
c. individual, societal
d. controlling, informational
d. controlling, informational
According to Deci and Ryan, accomplishments are satisfying:
a. no matter why they occur.
b. only if you do them without anyone’s help.
c. only if you feel a sense of self-determination in your effort.
d. all of the above
c. only if you feel a sense of self-determination in your effort.
Introjected regulation happens when a:
a. person’s behavior is self-determined.
b. person treats a value as a “want.”
c. person treats a value as a “should.”
d. none of the above
c. person treats a value as a “should.”
Identified regulation happens when a person’s behavior is:
a. informational.
b. self-determined.
c. controlling.
d. none of the above
b. self-determined.
Medical students who thought their professors were supportive of their own
autonomy:
a. became more autonomous in their own learning.
b. felt more competent in the skills they were learning.
c. were more supportive of others’ autonomy.
d. all of the above
d. all of the above
Which of the following is true of the needs for autonomy and relatedness?
a. Whereas people need both, the two needs are often incompatible.
b. The need for relatedness is stronger than the need for autonomy.
c. Satisfaction of both needs relate independently to well-being.
d. all of the above
c. Satisfaction of both needs relate independently to well-being.
If I am told I must do something that I thought I was free to do or not, and then turn
around and do the opposite, I am engaging in:
a. competence.
b. reactance.
c. freedom reassertion.
d. shaping.
b. reactance.