Emphasis on __________ in the 1960s provided fertile soil for the growth of humanistic psychology.
B. Individuality
- Which of the following is not a key element of humanistic psychology?
B. Identity Crisis
- Whereas psychoanalysts emphasize that adult personalities are formed in childhood, humanistic therapist focus on:
D the here and now
- Which of the following is characteristic of the fully functioning person according to Carl Rogers?
D all of the above
They trust their own feelings
They are open to their experiences
They pay attention to what is happening in the here and now
- Abraham Maslow said the motive that results from a lack of some object is called a __________ motive.
C deficiency motive
- Maslow stated that people lose their anxieties and experience a unity of self with the universe during:
A Peak experiences
- When Mihaly Csikszentnihalyi asked people to identify a moment when they felt the most alive, participants in his study said that:
D all of the above
The task they were engaged in was challenging
The experience involved a task that demanded the person’s full concentration
Each step in the experience seemed to flow automatically to the next
- Flow according to Mihaly is a personal feeling that you can get when you are
E all of the above
Working on a challenging cross word puzzle
Working on a challenging math problem
Competing in a challenging athletic performance
Working toward an important and challenging deadline at your job.
- According to Carl Rogers the proper therapeutic relationship between therapist and client includes which of the following?
D unconditional positive regard
- During person centered therapy the therapist offers ___________ of what the client seems to be saying.
C a restatement
- When are people more likely to experience flow?
D. When working at ones job.
- Carl Rogers believed that research into how people change during psychotherapy would help therapists:
D. Improve their ability to work with clients
- The use of the Q sort technique of personality assessment fits nicely with Carl Roger’s theory of personality because :
A. Clients know themselves best.
- Advocates of the ____________ approach probably have generated less empirical research than psychologists from other approaches.
C. Humanistic
- Dyadic Effect is the observation that persons who disclose personal information in conversation tend to:
C. Match each other’s level of intimacy
- In a self disclosure study in which students took turns volunteering information about themselves the students:
D. All of the above
Selected increasingly intimate topics
Began with a discussion on trivial topics
Tended to match their partners level of intimacy
- Self disclosing men are seen as well adjusted as long as
D. They talk about masculine topics
- Some existential psychologists believe that feelings of loneliness reflect a deeper concern about existential questions of
C. Alienation and the search for ones meaning in life
- Low self esteem people typically react to failure by :
A. Losing their motivation
- When high self esteem people are confronted with a negative evaluation, they:
B. Tell themselves how well they do in other areas.
- In order to measure self esteem stability researchers have
C. Asked people to regularly report their feelings of self worth
