Question 1

What is Maslow's problem with the scientific approach to understanding people?

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A)   It relies too heavily on maladjusted subjects.
B)   that laboratories are no place to study humans' behavior
C)   that the results of experimental animal studies are generalized to people
D)   that experimental controls are too difficult to institute

Question 2

Maslow thought that environments are

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A)   critically important for understanding human behavior
B)   important mainly during childhood
C)   difficult or impossible to specify
D)   what we make of them

Question 3

Cornell University

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A)   was among the few major Eastern universities admitting Jews when Maslow applied to college
B)   displayed not even a hint of anti-Semitism
C)   was where Maslow did all of his undergraduate work
D)   was well known as the most anti-Jewish university in the Eastern United States.

Question 4

Self-actualizers

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A)   could be anyone
B)   are not everybody, but number in the millions
C)   are people who are nearly perfect: for practical purposes: they have no faults
D)   fulfill themselves by making complete use of their potentialities

Question 5

What menace did Maslow face during his youth?

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A)   gangs
B)   polio
C)   the military draft
D)   starvation

Question 6

Only the rarest thought, behavior, or feeling is likely to

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A)   have any important meaning
B)   be repeated
C)   have only one motive behind it
D)   be practical C

Question 7

All of the following, except one, are flaws in self-actualization as Maslow conceived of it. Which is NOT a flaw?

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A)   Self-actualizers tend to be such self-absorbed people that they rarely make contributions to society.
B)   "Self-actualization" is an inherently ambiguous term.
C)   Self-actualization in Maslow's theory is not the same as self-actualization as manifested in the super-personalities.
D)   Self-actualizers tend to have a limited number of close, personal relationships.

Question 8

Maslow believed

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A)   a particular motivation cannot be considered in isolation from other motivations
B)   all people are created psychologically equal
C)   the "drive" concept is highly useful
D)   Gestalt psychology contributed nothing to his point of view

Question 9

What obstacle did Maslow face during his youth?

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A)   dyslexia
B)   anti-Semitism
C)   teachers thought he was retarded
D)   being born in Europe, he had to learn English

Question 10

Who may suffer a permanent loss of love (Maslow) ?

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A)   the elderly
B)   psychopaths
C)   brain damaged people
D)   motherless women

Question 11

Impoverished people operate at what need level on Maslow's hierarchy?

Accepted Answer

A)   self-esteem
B)   safety and security
C)   D-needs
D)   belongingness and love C

Question 12

What is the problem with Maslow's call to "transcend culture"?

Accepted Answer

A)   Nothing, it is something we must all do.
B)   Those who abandon their cultures may still be treated badly because of their cultures.
C)   Being identified with people everywhere is not psychological sound.
D)   Almost no one ever tries to transcend his/her culture.

Question 13

The most typical reversal to the usual order of need satisfactions is (Maslow)

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A)   security needs before physiological needs
B)   esteem needs before belongingness needs
C)   self-actualization needs before esteem needs
D)   esteem needs before physiological needs

Question 14

Related to Maslow's theory, success in school and in sports leads children to

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A)   self-efficacy
B)   esteem
C)   arrogance
D)   self-regulation

Question 15

Classic Gestalt psychology held that

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A)   therapy ought to be confrontational
B)   elements of perception could be discovered through introspection
C)   the secret to dealing with abnormal behaviors is cognitive therapy
D)   simple perceptions are wholes made up of integrated parts

Question 16

Maslow quarreled with which existential positions?

Accepted Answer

A)   "What is so essential to humans they can't do without it?"
B)   They see the self as emerging from the choices that people make.
C)   that, as people transcend themselves, they become more members of their species and less members of their culture
D)   their belief that free will is not possible without taking responsibility

Question 17

What is Maslow's problem with clinical approaches to understanding people?

Accepted Answer

A)   They rely too heavily on maladjusted subjects.
B)   Clinical setting are no place to study humans' behavior.
C)   The results of clinical animal studies are generalized to people.
D)   Clinical controls are too difficult to institute.

Question 18

Taoistic philosophy values all of the following except one. Which does it NOT value?

Accepted Answer

A)   material
B)   simple
C)   loving
D)   unselfish A

Question 19

What dinosaur-among-professors turned Maslow off to psychology?

Accepted Answer

A)   Wundt
B)   Titchener
C)   Harlow
D)   Koffka

Question 20

What percent of college students are self-actualizers, according to Maslow

Accepted Answer

A)   15%
B)   1%
C)   5%
D)   75%

Exam 10: Becoming All That One Can Be: Abraham Maslow

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Cornell University

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