Self Actualization

Question 1

What is Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Answer 1

Self actualization is achieved by meeting 5 categories of needs in a pyramid like arrangement. Lower order needs must be satisfied first and are more important than higher order needs.
- physiological
- safety
- love and belongingness
- self-esteem
- self actualization

Question 2

Maslow physiological

Answer 2

Bottom. Most basic needs can be completely satisfied or over satisfied

Question 3

Maslow Saftey

Answer 3

Stability, protection and freedom from threatening forces. Can never be over satisfied. Basic anxiety as a result of unsatisfied irrational fears about safety

Question 4

Love and Belongingness

Answer 4

Social needs. People fall into one of 3 categories
1. Needs has been satisfied have confidence can handle rejection
2. Never satisfied. Devalue love incapable of giving it
3. Received love and belonging in small doses, need remains strong

Question 5

Maslow Esteem

Answer 5

Confidence, sense of achievement, competence and knowledge that other hold us in high esteem

Reputation: perception of prestige and recondition in the eyes of others

Achievement: the desire for strength, achievement, adequacy, mastery and confidence in the face of the world and for independence and freedom

Question 6

Self Actualization

Answer 6

Self fulfillment, realization of our fullest potential, desire to be creative. Must meet b values in addition to 4 other needs to self actualize.

Criterion
- free from psychopathology
- progressed through the hierarchy
- embracing b values
- full use and exploration of talents, capabilities and potentials

Question 7

What does Self Actualization require according to Roger?

Answer 7

Requires an understanding of the self and Awareness of one’s experiences. Harmony between the self concept (self awareness), actualizing tendencies, and the ideal self (who we want to be). We are motivated by enhancement and to reach our fullest potential.

Question 8

Formative Tendency

Answer 8

There is an ongoing creative process where all things move simple forms to complex forms

Question 9

Actualizing tendencies

Answer 9

Reflected in all living things moving towards completion of fulfillment of potentials